My Three Husbands by Swan Adamson

Author:Swan Adamson [Adamson, Swan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Romance, General
ISBN: 9781617733857
Google: I11p4jK0IwYC
Amazon: 0758204477
Barnesnoble: 0758204477
Goodreads: 725532
Publisher: Kensington
Published: 2003-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

I didn’t dare smoke in the room, but I was excited and wanted a cigarette real bad.

Our suite was fantastic.

The outdoors was right there. There was a floor-to-ceiling glass wall that angled up so that part of the ceiling was glass, too. Everything was made of wood. Beyond the glass wall, there was a deck with a flagstone floor and a stone hot tub. Giant pine trees rose up just beyond the patio. The river sparkled through the trees.

“Wow.” I kicked off my sandals and stretched out on the enormous bed in what I hoped was a provocative pose. “It’s like being in a movie.”

Tremaynne shook his head and frowned as he examined everything. He ran his fingers along surfaces like a blind person reading Braille.

“Don’t you think it’s beautiful?” I asked him.

“Beautiful? What does that mean?” he said.

“The materials. The way it looks. Everything.” And it was my daddy who did it. It came from his brain. It represented the way he thought. It made me feel proud, special somehow.

Tremaynne cocked his head and shot me a squinty, disapproving glance. “Can you really feel comfortable in a place like this?”

“Sure.” Anything was an improvement on my tiny, messy apartment in Portland. “It kind of reminds me of their house.”

Tremaynne opened the minibar and scanned the contents. “Whose?”

“The dads’.” I paused, wondering if this was the right time to bring it up. “Who won the swimming match?”

“I did.”

“It was nice of you to go swimming with them. Nude.”

He pulled the bottle of wine from its bucket and examined the label.

“You seemed to be having a good time.”

He plunged the bottle back into the ice and started picking through the giant fruit basket.

“Do you find them attractive?”

He smiled but wouldn’t look at me.

“Sexually, I mean?”

“Got any aspirin?” He opened my purse and started pawing through it.

I darted up to snatch it from his hands. But instead of handing it over, he turned away and began rifling through the contents. “Plenty of candy, I see. Cigarettes. All the consumer shit you can’t live without.”

“Tremaynne, if you’re mad at me, let’s talk about it.”

“I’m sick. I’ve got like the worst headache in the world.” He drew out a plastic case. “What’s this?”

“My birth control.”

He tossed the case at me and said, “Please don’t stop eating those.”

I was burning up. Part of me wanted to fight this out. But I was too scared. I didn’t want to find out what was bothering him, because I was afraid it was me. And it was too soon after the wedding to start fighting. I wanted to live in ignorant bliss awhile longer.

“Was it the bear?” I asked.

He looked at me like I was crazy. “What are you talking about?”

“You changed. After you saw that bear.”

“Yeah. That really freaked me out.” He slowly walked over to the glass wall and stood there, looking out. “I just can’t stand it that people kill animals.”

“It was horrible.”

“I saw a lot worse than that when I worked at the animal research labs.

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