Ridley Pearson by Hard Fall (txt)

Author:Hard Fall (txt) [Fall, Hard]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

THIRTEEN

OUTSIDE HER OPEN bedroom window, the leaves of the rhododendron bushes clattered like thin slats of wood. A breeze! Thank God, wind. Perhaps the heat wave would finally pass and stop stunting the cycle of every flower in her garden. The tulips had long since passed, of course, but oh, what a sight they had been. A riot of color intricately woven like the threads of an Asian silk, patches of yellow, salmon, and a cherry rose the likes of which she had never seen. She lived for her garden, both vegetable and flower alike, and resented the destructive heat.

Carrie uncoiled the delicately patterned floral sheet from her naked body and lay in bed with the delicious breeze streaming across her. It was like something sent from heaven. She rolled up onto an elbow and faced it headon, drinking in the scents and perfumes. The breeze lifted some hair from her face, and she thought that if it would only rain, and rain hard, this heat would pass. All would be well again.

Almost all.

Before donning a stitch of clothing, the heavenly breeze still rushing over her, she lay back, reached for the phone and dialed her sister, who answered loudly above the chaos of children at the breakfast table.

“It’s me,” Carrie said.

The children’s voices faded. Carrie could picture her sister, the portable phone pinched on her shoulder, heading across the African hardwood floor toward the study with its red leather chairs and sofa, and walls of alphabetized books. Her husband was the type to alphabetize their books and keep a card catalogue of Christmas card addresses that included the names of any children and notes of the last time they had gotten together.

“You’re calling late.”

“It’s a lazy morning. I have to get going. I can’t find the energy.”

“You see,” her sister said. “There’s the difference. There’s exactly what I was talking about yesterday.”

Carrie was wondering why she put herself through this every morning, for she knew what was coming long before the sound reached her ears.

“I’m telling you: When you have other interests you can’t wait to get going in the morning. You dress differently, you eat differently.”

“He’s eighteen years old! How fair is that to Eric?”

“He’s twenty-one. And who said anything about Eric? It’s fair to me. I’m alive again. I love Eric. I love the children “

“Do you love… him? Whatever his name is…”

“Love? Love is not the issue here. I’m infatuated. My heart beats quickly when he touches me. My skin goes completely electric at just the sound of his voice.”

“That’s guilt.”

“It isn’t either.”

“It might be.”

“It’s physical attraction. It’s natural. It’s multiple orgasms, for God’s sake! When was the last time Cam did that to you?”

“Don’t bring Cam into this.”

“Not in recent memory, was it? I can hear it in your voice. That’s because you’ve lost the infatuation. I’m telling you, nothing has been better for Eric and me than this… distraction. It makes you appreciate what you’ve got, and it makes you realize what you’re missing.”

“You make it sound like therapy.

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