Season of Glory by Ron & Janet Benrey

Author:Ron & Janet Benrey [Ron & Benrey, Janet]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780373443185
Amazon: B00724CCWQ
Publisher: Steeple Hill Books
Published: 2008-07-15T00:00:00+00:00

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Andrew woke up at first light on Friday morning after a rest-less night, elated that his life had changed, but also vaguely apprehensive about the future. He’d been tempted to blame these negative feelings on his rusty relationship machinery.

After all, last night marked the first time in five years that he’d confessed his feelings to a woman.

But Andrew soon realized that none of the common pop-psychology clichés explained the anxiety that caromed around his consciousness. He wasn’t having second thoughts now that he’d declared his feelings for Sharon. He didn’t have cold feet or “buyer’s remorse.”

You’re not afraid of keeping her—you’re worried that you might lose her.

He peered out his window at Broad Street. There was a remote possibility—that she would bicycle to work along Broad Street, and that he’d catch a glimpse of her beautiful face. He quickly began to feel foolish. The only thing his watchfulness had accomplished was to make him wonder where Sharon was this morning, and what she was doing.

He thought about dialing her cell phone, perhaps even inviting her to lunch, but concluded that would make him seem

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clingy or needy. Sharon might become angry with him. Or worse yet, disillusioned with their new attachment.

Relationships could fail in a thousand different ways. His past failed liaisons proved the point. After a promising beginning, something unexpected would start the disenchantment ball rolling. Often something related to stained glass. “You put your career ahead of me.” “You travel too much and are gone too long.”

“Sharon Pickard will be different,” he murmured. “I’ll stay in love with her…she’ll stay in love with me.

“Really?” he replied to himself. “How do you intend to accomplish that magic trick?”

He hadn’t thought it through, but he knew one thing for sure.

He couldn’t go on ditching his own deeply held values to keep Sharon happy. That was a surefire route to disaster, because both of them would eventually end up miserable.

He turned on his laptop computer and arranged two windows side by side: The Pearl of Great Value on the left and Franny Brewer’s The Lost Coin on the right. The differences were easy to spot, even in the small images on a laptop screen. He’d known Franny for more than a decade. She had the talent to create competent windows, but she wasn’t in the same league as Daniel Cottier. She’d duplicated Cottier’s color palette and imitated the general style of his cartoons, but never in a thousand years of trying would she capture the liveliness of Cottier’s finished windows or their unmistakable sense of elegance.

Andrew slammed the laptop’s lid shut and cursed his decision to propose a “compromise.” The great-great-great-grandson of James Ballantine had taken the easy way out, abandoned The Pearl of Great Value window, and consigned a historic piece of art to oblivion.

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Season of Glory

He’d pleased Sharon in the short run, but what of the long-term impact to their relationship? Did Sharon really want him to forsake his integrity without a fight? Could she continue

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