Mixed Blessings by Danielle Steel

Author:Danielle Steel
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, azw3
ISBN: 9780307566690
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2009-02-24T23:00:00+00:00

Charlie cooked a perfect turkey for Barbie. And she was there with him this time. She didn’t go anywhere, or come home late. She still felt guilty about their anniversary. But Charlie was also aware, as they sat down to dinner together that night, that something was missing between them. He had felt it for a while, possibly since she’d spent the Labor Day weekend in Las Vegas, or maybe even before that. She had come back itching for excitement again, talking about the shows they’d seen, and the friends they met up with, and wanting Charlie to go out dancing with her. But he was usually too tired to do it. And he wasn’t a great dancer anyway. But he noticed, too, that suddenly she was complaining constantly about what he didn’t do for her, and how square he was, even the way he dressed, which really wasn’t fair, since he never bought new clothes for himself, only for Barbie. Maybe Mark had been right, Charlie mused to himself, and he shouldn’t have let her go to Las Vegas.

Ever since she got back, she stayed out with her girlfriends all the time, She went to the movies and dinner with them, and once in a while she even called him and said she was too tired to come home and she had decided to stay overnight at Judi’s. He never complained, but he didn’t like it either. He had mentioned it to Mark, who had reminded him again that he’d better keep her on a short leash or he’d be very sorry.

And Charlie kept telling himself that if they had a child, everything would change. She’d be different, she’d settle down. She wouldn’t want the glamour or the flash, or maybe even to be an actress. He hadn’t brought up the subject of a family again since June, but he had continued to be cagey about following her cycles, and nothing had happened. He still came home with champagne a couple of times a month, and he always made sure that he made love to her on one of those times, at just the right time. And if she was drunk enough, she never reminded him about precautions. But despite his best efforts, sometimes as often as twice in a night, just to be sure, she still hadn’t gotten pregnant. He had even asked her once if she was on the pill, since Mark had made him think of that, and she was surprised and asked him if he wanted her to take it. But he just told her that he’d read an article about how dangerous it was for women who smoked, and since she did, he was concerned. But she assured him she wasn’t on it. And still, she hadn’t gotten pregnant.

Mark had given him the name of his brother-in-law’s specialist by then, and Charlie had an appointment to see him the Monday after Thanksgiving. He was seriously worried. The comment she’d made about never getting pregnant

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