Second Time Around by Portia Da Costa

Author:Portia Da Costa [Costa, Portia Da]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Contemporary, Erotic Romance
ISBN: 9781426835117
Publisher: Spice
Published: 2009-05-26T16:00:00+00:00

Later, I don’t know how much, he helps me to dress, handing me my clothes and offering his arm for me to lean on when I step into my shoes. We do this without many words, but they’re not needed. It’s as if all the distance between us during our marriage has collapsed and we’re soul to soul, closer now than we’ve ever been.

Clattering through the foyer, I realize I’m going to go with him, wherever he wants me to go. It’s been good to see old school friends, but my place is by James’s side now. We nod to a few folk as we pass through, but we don’t stop.“I have a hotel room at the Greybridge,” I offer cautiously, once we’re out on the gravel. At one time, I’d have been bustling him into going there, organizing, controlling, but not now.

“Sounds great. I just came on spec. I didn’t plan that far.” He leans over and gives me a kiss. “Let’s go there then. Good thinking, love.” He reaches up and ruffles my hair like I’m a dutiful child who’s done well.

I glow, feeling like a dutiful child who’s done well.

“You wait here. I’ll get my car. Did you drive here?”

I shake my head, and he nods approvingly before striding off in the direction of the staff car park. He’ll only be a moment or two, but I’m already missing him. I console myself by surreptitiously pressing my hand against my bottom, and stirring the fading remnants of my pain, and my pleasure.

Smiling to myself, it’s several seconds before I realize I’m not alone. There’s a figure sitting on a bench, by the entrance. She’s got a glass of wine and seems to be sitting in the twilight, deep in thought, her brow puckered. I think of my own recent epiphany, and sidle over. I won’t push or pry, but she looks as if she might need a sounding board.

“Hello, Annette…how are you? Didn’t see you in there…How have you been?”

Annette Fraser is pretty and slender with long dark red hair, a bit of a Pre-Raphaelite babe. In our sixth form year, it was an open secret that she adored Mr. Laurence, who was the youngest and most handsome of our teachers back then. There were whispers and speculation that he liked her too, but he was always very correct, with no hint of impropriety.

“Same old, same old,” she says with a sigh, sipping her drink.

My God, she still likes him! After all this time…

Without thinking, I grab her by the shoulder and squeeze. “Look, Annie, go for it! He’s available now…he’s not married. Maybe he’s been waiting for you.” I think about my man, also waiting, and as I do, I hear a growling engine approaching. “Don’t hold back, love. You might miss out on something wonderful.”

As a rather rakish and slightly battered old gray S Type pulls up, and from within, James pops the passenger door, I decide I’m never going to hold back either. I’ll try anything, do anything…at his command.

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