Mending Fences by Patricia Yager Delagrange

Author:Patricia Yager Delagrange
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: women's fiction
Publisher: Ravenswood Publishing (Sly Fox)
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-One

Several weeks later, Kathy sat at her desk at work, staring at her computer, where the newest addition to the video game she’d created hovered on the screen. It was her fifteen-minute break, and she’d just completed Level 20. It appeared to work perfectly. She’d always shown Charlie every step of her progress in creating this game. In fact, he’d been helpful with his ideas.

He’d been on her mind constantly. She missed him, no doubt about it. As much as she vociferously denied it to Patti, she wanted, no, she needed to know what happened between them and why. Why had he dumped her and never explained?

When she last spent time with him, right before her mother’s death, he’d been loving and comforting. She’d been impressed by his attentiveness and concern for her. They’d made love before she’d gotten on the plane, headed for San Francisco. He’d held her hand in the airport, draped his arm around her shoulders. And when it was time for him to say goodbye, he’d kissed her passionately, with greater fervor than she’d felt in months.

What went wrong? Was it something she said or did? She kept returning to that day over and over and over in her mind and could not think of one thing that could have set him off or made him angry. She’d never obsessed about anything like this in her life.

But he’d been less romantic the weeks before her mom had died. She’d chalked it up to work, and he’d admitted he was worried about the financial state of his business. He’d forgotten that only a week before he’d told her he was selling, leasing, and renting so many yachts he couldn’t keep up with the demand. And the lie was verified when she ran into his accountant. Something was up.

And suddenly she realized not knowing was killing her. She wasn’t being honest with Patti or herself, saying she didn’t care any longer, that she didn’t need to know. That was an out-and-out lie. She might not want to admit it to Patti, but …

Come on, Kathy. You damn well ought to admit it to yourself.

She had to find out his reason for dumping her, so she could stop thinking about him and what part she might have played in his leaving her. But she didn’t want to call him or text him or leave him a message. He wouldn’t call or text her back, and she knew it. She needed him to tell her to her face the reason he’d dumped her so ungraciously and cruelly.

She must have gotten pregnant the last time she and Charlie had sex, the day before she flew up to see her mom, the day before her mom died. It was now June. She was carrying a baby. A baby the two of them had created. They’d once spoken of what it would be like to have children and how many each of them wanted. She yearned for a passel of kids. He wanted one boy and one girl and, if not, two kids was his limit.

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