Not Without You by Taylor Janelle

Author:Taylor, Janelle [Janelle Taylor]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781420127546
Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corp.

Kelsey doubled over with laughter. Tears filled her eyes and she couldn’t speak. Jarred, dressed in jeans and a sweatshirt, sat on the sofa in his bedroom suite and blandly ignored her fit of hysteria. “She said, ‘I thought I forgot to turn the oven on. I’ll be on my way now.’”

This cracked Kelsey up all the more. “Oh, my God!” she said, swiping tears of hilarity from the corners of her eyes.

“Yes, well…”

“I wish I could have been a fly on the wall. Are you sure she’s going to come back?”

“Not completely,” he admitted, sending Kelsey into new fits of laughter.

With more love than she’d thought possible, she crossed the room and slipped down next to him on the couch. “I forgot what you could be like,” she said softly. “I never realized until the accident how much I’ve missed you.”

Her admission touched him. He pulled her close, not wanting even the smallest space between them. “I’ve been giving the accident a lot of thought. Turning it over in my mind. The crux of it is, I don’t know why I was with Chance. It doesn’t make sense.”

“You still don’t remember anything about the accident?”

Jarred shook his head in frustration. “I had a dream about him. I’ve been trying to remember, but it’s not there. He looked like hell, though. Scared and upset. We were in my office,” Jarred suddenly recalled.

“In your office? In the dream?”

He nodded. “But it seemed more like reality.”

“Chance looked terrible the night he came to see me,” Kelsey said.

“Skinny. Jittery. Unclean…?”

“Well, yes,” she said, hating to talk badly about Chance. “He broke down and cried.”

“Do you think he was on something?”

“He was always on something,” Kelsey admitted with a sigh.

Jarred drew her close and talked into her hair. “Why would I invite him on the plane? I never even liked him. I always thought he was your lover.”

“I told you he was a family friend.”

“I know… now ” Jarred struggled to make her believe something that he was just beginning to believe himself. “But for a long time I thought you were sleeping with him.”

“Do you mean during our marriage?” Kelsey was affronted. “You thought I was sleeping with someone else?”

“You thought I was sleeping with someone else,” Jarred pointed out reasonably.

“Well, yes, but that was different. Sarah was always with you. I hardly saw Chance.”

Jarred inhaled deeply, weighing his words, wondering if this was the right time to bring up something he now wished he’d never believed. “I know the truth now.”

“But you didn’t then?”

“No.”

“Why did you mistrust me?” Kelsey had never done anything the least bit suspicious or nefarious during the length of their marriage, and it bothered her that he thought she had.

Inhaling a deep breath, Jarred took the plunge. “Sarah told me she saw you coming out of his apartment the morning of our wedding. She said you’d slept with him.”

Kelsey’s mouth dropped open. “You can’t be serious.”

“And then I confronted Chance with it, and he said it was true.”

“What? No.

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