Love with the Proper Stranger by Suzanne Brockmann

Author:Suzanne Brockmann [Brockmann, Suzanne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781460343050
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 1998-09-21T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

TWO STITCHES. TWO TINY little stitches, and she had to stay out of the water and away from Foundations for Families for another unknown quantity of days.

It wouldn’t be so bad if she knew precisely how long it was going to be before she could get back to her routine. Two days? Two weeks? Two months? Nobody would give her any definite answers, and meanwhile, her entire life was on hold.

All for two little stitches.

She was working hard to control her impatience. But Foundations for Families was counting on her. She’d already missed too many of her shifts. She needed to get back and…

Mariah did one of her breathing exercises. She sounded like Marie. This was not Mariah, with her no-worries, no-stress attitude. Mariah would take these imposed days off as a gift. A chance to lie on the beach and catch up on her reading. A chance to sleep late, to take the time to cook herself delicious, healthful dinners, to watch the sunset and see the stars come out at night.

The first few days actually had been fun. Jonathan Mills had dropped by once a day, bringing her things to eat and books to read, videotapes to watch and tacky little toys from the souvenir shop to amuse her. A goofy-looking duck made from seashells glued together. A Garden Isle coloring book and a thirty-six-pack of crayons. A booklet of Mad-Libs.

Funny things. Silly things. The kind of things one friend would give another.

John’s visits were nothing but friendly. In fact, he seemed to take special care that they never touched—that they never got close enough even to brush against one another by accident.

Their conversations were safe, too. They talked about books and movies and newspaper headlines. They talked about Foundations for Families and the best place on the island to get an omelet.

Mariah wasn’t certain when John’s latest medical test results would be coming in, but she was more than ready for him to receive a clean bill of health. From things he’d said, little hints he’d dropped, she had to believe that he’d be getting word soon. Maybe then he’d let himself give in to the attraction she still saw simmering in his eyes whenever he thought she wasn’t looking.

Of course, it was entirely possible that when he wasn’t looking at her, he was looking at Serena with the exact same heat in his eyes. Serena didn’t come to visit, not even once, and Mariah couldn’t bring herself to call her. She suspected, though, by John’s noticeable absence at dinnertime, that the two of them were together. She suspected, but she hoped it was only her too-vivid imagination, fueled by jealousy, rearing its ugly little head.

She tried to stomp it back into place, but it peered at her from dark corners. She tried to bring it out into the light. So what if John was seeing Serena? He’d made it clear to Mariah that he and she were no more than friends. She could be happy with his friendship.

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