Ralph's Party by Lisa Jewell

Author:Lisa Jewell [Jewell, Lisa]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction, General
ISBN: 9780141916170
Google: HTDM8rSlvEEC
Amazon: B002RI96U8
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 1999-05-05T16:00:00+00:00

They hadn't made love since. They hadn't really talked either. They'd gone about their lives in an apparently normal fashion. Siobhan had given him a hero's welcome when he returned after the transmission of his first show, and he'd given her flowers. They'd been out to buy a new sofa together and bid an emotional farewell to the old one when they left it at the tip. But things

just weren't the same, there was a distance between them that would have taken a million yards of rope tc bridge, an intolerable distance that they were both too afraid to cross, because below was infinite darkness, impossible depth.

The baby had been forgotten about; it hadn't been mentioned since that night.

Things were not good and now they were getting worse.

No, Karl had never felt less funny in his life.

CHAPTER TWELVE

Jem had always found that men seemed to fall in love very quickly. The full-blown declaration of love usually came within the first week, sometimes sooner. When she was younger she'd been so shocked by these revelations that she would clumsily repeat this much-abused statement in reply, not knowing how else to bring the embarrassing moment to a close. And then, of course, after it had been said once it had to be repeated like a mantra every time it was offered to her like a desperate gift from the love-afflicted soul. She soon learned when the 1 Love You' moment was imminent and discovered that when it was countered by a firm but affectionate 'Don't be silly, of course you don't', it rendered the afflicted one even more desperately in love and devoted.

Which is why, even though she'd been going out with Smith for nearly two months now, she wasn't in the least worried that he still hadn't said it, that he still hadn't told her he loved her. He didn't have to. Jem knew he loved her, without a word leaving his lips. As far as she was concerned it was yet another sign that Smith was the One. It was all so easy, so effortless. Smith was so undemanding, he didn't put any pressure on her.

Jem found it refreshing that he didn't plague her with romantic gestures and overblown declarations and gifts and pukey tokens and acts of love. He didn't go on about

how beautiful she was, or how she was the most amazing woman he'd ever met, or how she was so sexy and so wonderful and so special. She'd had enough of all that to last her a lifetime and she knew that such devotion usually came with a price tag attached - the jealousy and possessiveness of an insecure man.

Jem was aware that other women might find her attitude hard to understand. She realized that many women spent the majority of their lives dreaming of a man who would finally notice the dazzling flecks of amber in their eyes, the fine golden hair on the back of their necks, the porcelain smoothness of their skin, a man

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