Sensuous Burgundy by Barbara Delinsky

Author:Barbara Delinsky [Delinsky, Barbara]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Barbara Delinsky
ISBN: 9780061011016
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2009-10-22T07:00:00+00:00

DEEPEST CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR

SUCCESS. AM PROUD OF YOU.

MAX

Was that it, she asked herself in disbelief. Was that all he had to say? No phone call, just this two-sentence bit of impersonal garbage?

Fighting the hurt that threatened to reduce her to tears, she carefully folded the telegram and replaced it in its envelope, stashing it in a bureau drawer, out of sight but accessible, before she headed for the office. Swamped in disappointment, aching from the seeming inadequacy of his response, Laura quickly took care of any office business that had piled up during the trial, then bundled herself up, packed her briefcase, and took off for the rest of the day, knowing the mini-holiday to be well earned, what with the hours she’d kept while on trial.

The afternoon and evening found her at home, waiting in vain for a very particular phone call. As the hours passed, self-doubt flared. Had she imagined the warmth he held for her? Had she, in her cocoon of love, misread his actions? Had she, having given this man the very treasured part of her that was no more, SENSUOUS BURGUNDY / 151

been merely viewing their relationship through rosecolored glasses? Why hadn’t he called?

Question after question arose, to be reiterated mere moments later. Hadn’t Max realized how important each trial meant to her? Wouldn’t he have wanted to congratulate her in person, or, at least, over the phone?

How wonderful it would have been to hear his voice. Hurt and bewilderment gave way to anger. Who was he to keep her on tenterhooks like this? Well, she was not about to sit around forever awaiting word from him—and she was getting tired of the other phone calls, those nuisance ones that had continued to plague her. It was nine o’clock when, in a fit of frustration, she took the phone off its hook and let it dangle freely toward the floor. There. Now she would not be expecting either call!

All night the phone remained uncradled. All night her anger remained intense, unabated by the passage of time and the coming of a new day. If anything, she was even more annoyed that with Saturday morning there was still no sign of Max. Why she had expected him to show up at her door, she didn’t know; it was wishful thinking that seemed destined to remain unfulfilled. Slamming the telephone receiver back in its proper place, she vowed to keep herself busy all day. Several phone calls later, she set out to do just that, intermixing her shopping and tennis class with lunch out and then, much later, a visit and dinner with friends. 152 / BARBARA DELINSKY

It was good to see the Davissons, a couple to whom she had grown quite close since she’d arrived in Northampton three years ago. Amanda had been a classmate of hers at Mount Holyoke and had married Mark right after graduation, while Laura had gone on to law school. Now Amanda and Mark were the proud and busy parents of

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