Mistaken Adversary by Penny Jordan

Author:Penny Jordan [Jordan, Penny]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Contemporary, Fiction, Romance, General
ISBN: 9780263216677
Google: VFMBSEUgLPUC
Amazon: 0263216675
Publisher: SOS Free Stock
Published: 1992-01-02T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIX

FOR two days or so, it seemed to Georgia that her aunt miraculously rallied and seemed almost to be making a recovery; and then, on the third day, when Georgia had left her bedside to go home for a much-needed rest, the telephone rang, bringing her out of her deep and exhausted sleep.

She knew instinctively even before she answered it that it would be the hospice. Within ten minutes of the call she was dressed and on her way to her aunt's beside, trying to remind herself that it would serve no purpose if through lack of concentration on her driving she should suffer some form of accident on her way there.

Grimly she reflected that if Mitchell Fletcher should return in her absence he would no doubt once again think she was spending the night with her lover.

Mitchell Fletcher—what on earth was she doing letting him into her mind, her thoughts, her emotions now when she needed all her energies, all her emotional and mental resources to be concentrated on her aunt and what lay ahead?

Was it because she was so desperately afraid, even now, of letting her aunt down, of draining from her the last of her fragile strength, instead of giving to her, supporting her, that she allowed herself to think of Mitchell? Was she using him as a means of distracting herself from what lay ahead?

As she got closer to the hospice her stomach started to churn. Death as a concept was hard enough to face; but as a reality... She gave a tense shudder. She was so desperately afraid, she acknowledged, afraid both of letting her aunt down, and for herself. She had never witnessed death before, and the thought of witnessing her beloved aunt's...

It was a relief when she got to the hospice to find that her aunt was both conscious and lucid, even if she did look heartbreakingly frail.

'If you want one of us to sit with you, or if you need us at all...' Sister told her gently as she accompanied her to her aunt's bedside.

Silently Georgia shook her head, settling herself at her aunt's side, reaching for the impossibly frail, almost fleshless hand that lay outside the covers.

Amazingly, her aunt was actually smiling, her eyes so full of love and reassurance that, despite her determination not to do so, Georgia felt her own eyes fill with tears. Tears for herself, she told herself firmly, not for her aunt, who was so calm, so obviously at peace with herself that to cry for her would almost have been an insult to her bravery.. .an attempt to take from her what she had fought so hard to achieve.

'No, Georgia, don't,' her aunt chided her softly when she tried to hide her tears from her. 'There's no need to hide your feelings from me. I feel like crying a little myself. There's still so much I wanted to do...

those roses, for instance. I wanted to see you married... to hold your children; and yet at the same time I feel.

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