Rushing Waters by Danielle Steel

Author:Danielle Steel
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, azw3
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2016-08-30T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 8

Once Gina was uptown with her cell phone working again, she tried to call Nigel whenever she could, and sent him several texts, hoping he would get them and respond. She hated to be out of touch and was worried about him. And it seemed reasonable to assume that he would want to know how she and the girls were. She had been living with him for a year, after all, and had left her marriage for him and moved to New York. She considered the bond they shared akin to a marriage, or just shy of it. And she had asked him to call her just to check in, in the texts she sent him. In the aftermath of the storm, she didn’t even know where he was staying. Since their apartment was in a flood zone and the building was still evacuated, she knew he wasn’t staying there, and assumed he was still in Brooklyn with the artists he’d been helping, although he had said that all their apartments and studios had been washed out too.

He called her finally on Thursday night, while she was at a restaurant having dinner with Charles and the girls, and Nigel sounded irate when she answered. She went outside to talk to him, away from Charles and the children.

“Why the hell are you sending me all those fucking texts? Don’t you know I’m busy? I don’t have time to answer you,” he snarled at her, and she was taken aback by the tone of his voice.

“I’m worried about you, that’s all. I don’t even know where you are, or where you’re sleeping,” she said plaintively, which made him even madder.

“What difference does it make? I told you, I’m busy. I’m helping my friends, and pulling their art from underwater. I don’t have time to worry about you. And I’m staying at a motel in Brooklyn.” For a moment she wondered if he was cheating on her, but it didn’t seem likely. He was on a mission. “I’ll come back when I’m finished. You’ve got that idiot you were married to, to help you—why do you need to hear from me too?” She was offended on Charles’s behalf—he had been extremely nice to her and the girls, in spite of what she had done to him, and he was genuinely concerned with their well-being and safety, with no apparent ulterior motive.

“He’s just concerned about the children. And I’m not his responsibility. I live with you, not with him.”

“You’re not my responsibility either,” he said harshly. “I’m not your mother or father, Gina. I can’t worry about you all the time, and they’re his brats, not mine. He should be taking care of them. Why do I have to?” He sounded incensed that she wanted anything from him, and everything he had said to her was offensive, about her, Charles, and her children.

“Presumably you would want to take care of us because you love me.” And she had hoped that he liked the girls better than he seemed to.

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