Snowstorm Confessions by Rachel Lee

Author:Rachel Lee
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2014-08-31T14:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

Sleep took Luke even though he wanted to keep on working. Mike’s visit had filled his head with all kinds of information that would give him a sound basis for making recommendations. As soon as his brain had returned from la-la land, he had set to work proving his ability to manage the progress even though he was laid up. Defending his job.

Still, he was exhausted, and despite his best effort of will, he needed sleep. He kept dozing off in the middle of the sentences he was trying to type, and finally he slipped from a doze to a deep sleep.

His dreams were troubled, and they mostly involved Bri. When eventually he woke, it was deep in the night and by the light of the little lamp they had been using as his night-light, he stared upward at that boring ceiling and thought about it.

Today had been a mistake. She was right. No way could they recover from the mess they’d ended up making, so what was the point? Yet today for the first time he’d understood what Bri’s problem really was, and it pained him.

He gathered from what she had said that it wasn’t her happy feelings that had been bottled up, but the other, less pleasant ones. Anger. Frustration. Irritation. Bottled to the point that she couldn’t even tell if they were justified, and from what she’d indicated, whether they were even real or what was causing them.

It wasn’t right, damn it. Those feelings had reasons, however silly they might sometimes be, and expressing them was necessary to clearing the air. To solving problems. That emotional truncation had left him wondering what was going on and what, if anything, he could do about it.

It had worked for a while. He’d watched those moments in her when there was obviously something that bothered her. Then they’d blew away rapidly, leaving him to believe it had nothing to do with him.

Increasingly, though, he had realized those ephemeral moments were very much grounded in their marriage, but by then it was too late. Unspoken, unexpressed, they had become a bomb that had finally exploded, destroying everything.

How did you deal with that? He’d never dissuaded her from talking. He’d often asked what was wrong, because he really wanted to know. Then the smooth, smiling face would return and everything would get lost again in lovemaking or some other romantic pastime.

Glumly, he faced the fact that he’d never really known her. She hadn’t allowed it.

Compounding his idiocy, he had drawn her onto his lap today. Had held her and kissed her and rediscovered the passion that had apparently never died. That was going to make things smoother. Not. He still ached for her, he still wanted her and, damn it, he wanted to really get to know her.

She’d always fascinated him, always seemed like a bit of a puzzle, but now he wished he could put that puzzle together. It might turn out that they had never been suited at all,

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