Perfect in My Sight by Tanya Anne Crosby - Perfect in My Sight

Author:Tanya Anne Crosby - Perfect in My Sight [Crosby, Tanya Anne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780988497481
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Goodreads: 2529736
Publisher: Avon
Published: 1998-04-30T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 17

Sarah sat within her room—Mary’s room—in her chair by the window, staring at the portrait of Mary she held in her hand.

She had panicked.

There was no other word for it.

She couldn’t explain what had come over her, except that she had lost her wits and nerve and who knew what else.

There was something tangible between them, something that seemed wholly impossible and yet... and yet... it was there.

She could feel it.

And it wasn’t her imagination because she saw it in the glitter of his eyes. It was a hungry glance she wasn’t supposed to have spied, and yet she had.

Afraid of a little touch?

More than she could possibly have imagined.

Cad.

Without mercy, he had thrown her own words back at her.

Even now, with the memory of his touch, her heartbeat had yet to slow.

She studied the portrait she held in her hand. Had Mary felt this for him too? Had she been drawn to Peter in the same way? Had her skin prickled at his slightest glance? And had she dreamt of his lips?

Something fluttered in her belly at the thought of his mouth.

Had Mary dared to live these wicked thoughts?

Sarah could scarcely bear that she had condemned her cousin for what she was feeling this moment—and for the very man she’d felt it for! God knew Sarah had come into his home ready to loathe him. With a start, she realized she no longer could. How could she despise a man who cared so very much for his son, who sat on the floor and polished little toy soldiers with him, who bought him taffy in the park and gazed down upon his child with such undisguised affection?

The only thing Sarah could not condone was the fact that he pushed his son so blessed hard. It was as though he drove Christopher out of some sense of...

What?

In truth, it was as though he could not accept Christopher’s disability. And yet he accepted his son completely... It was obvious that Peter embraced his child. So did he push Christopher so hard out of some sense of personal culpability? Did he need his son to overcome his blindness in order to assuage his own guilt feelings?

Sarah wondered.

The truth was, however, that Christopher was an overly intelligent child. He did not appear to be overburdened by his father’s expectations as Ruth had suggested. In fact, judging by all he’d said to his father, he had grasped everything she had taught him with a minimum of explanation and a maximum of comprehension. Even his speech patterns were hardly those of a six-year-old.

Whatever the case... it was growing more and more difficult to believe Peter was Mary’s murderer.

She had to consider whether it was because she suddenly didn’t want him to be.

A soft rap on the door startled her from her reveries. She placed Mary’s portrait down upon the table. “Who is it?”

“It’s Mel, Sarah.”

Sarah rose up from the chair and hurried to the door. “Come in!”

Mel didn’t need a second invitation; she threw open the door and entered, shutting it quickly behind her.

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