Someday, Somewhere by Mary Kay McComas

Author:Mary Kay McComas [McComas, Mary Kay]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-4804-8426-9
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: 2014-03-07T21:25:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

BY THE TIME they got back to the clearing it was nearly dusk. They found that Stan and Angela had already left, as well as Janie and her parents and their two other children. Gil’s second daughter and her family were preparing to take off, also. Gil had waited only to get Kevin’s reaction to the waterfall before he made his departure.

Kevin and Hobbs remained to help put the clearing back in order and carry things back to the cabins. While the two men and Sybil had coffee at the big round dining table, Jan bathed and put two exhausted boys to bed.

Jan and Kevin drew out the time to part as long as they could. Finally Hobbs remembered some packages in the truck for the boys, and Sybil, tactfully for once, said good night.

Alone, they looked at each other with the same emanations but with different fears and from different points of view. They were both intoxicated and deeply in love with the other. Passion radiated from their every pore. Kevin hated to leave her even long enough to take the coffee cup back to the sink, but he knew he would be back for her. Jan, on the other hand, wasn’t so sure she’d ever see him again. The odds seemed insurmountable that they would ever be together.

“I have to leave early tomorrow. I’m working on a deal to buy a subsidiary of Manning Industries—a plastics factory—and the old goat is giving me a little trouble right now. I have to have dinner with the attorneys tomorrow night to work out some details before I see Manning on Monday. Otherwise I’d try to stay a few more days. Jan, I hate leaving you like this. I don’t know what to tell you to convince you that what we have is too big, too alive to die now.”

Jan had become extremely pale. Pain was clearly visible in her eyes and in the grim set of her mouth. Not only was Kevin leaving, but she couldn’t tell him about Manning Industries, not if Kevin was already getting the runaround with the subsidiary he wanted. He seemed to take for granted that she knew of Manning Industries. Did Kevin know she had once worked for Jeff Manning? Did he know the circumstances under which she had taken her leave from Manning Industries? Obviously he didn’t know that Manning was her father. She felt her heart skip a beat. Good Lord, what if her name came up in conversation? Then again, why would it? And there would be time enough after the deal went through to tell him. … That is, if they were still hoping for a future together.

Early Monday morning over breakfast it wasn’t Kevin who mentioned Jan’s name. The president of Manning Industries did.

“Have any luck with J. P. Harper?” Jeff Manning asked too casually.

Thinking the old man wanted to gloat because he had told Kevin that Jan wouldn’t come back to New York, and not caring if he did rub it in, Kevin told him, “You were right.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.