Spark Of Desire by Christa Maurice

Author:Christa Maurice
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kensington
Published: 2010-01-04T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

It took another hour to get Kevin out of her apartment. Sitting next to him at the table had been agonizing. The act of concentrating on the book between them sapped her strength. She still wanted him to kiss her again. Every time his arm or hand had brushed her, it felt like an electrical shock.

She dropped onto the couch and reached for the phone. But who could she call?

Mindi would get hysterical again, and Jessica didn’t feel up to that right now.

Julie, Sonya and Diana would listen, but they didn’t know the whole story.

Bobbie fell under the tell-no-one restriction Kevin had given her.

She dialed her parents’ house and hoped her father would pick up. Sometimes he did, when she was lucky and she needed him.

“Hello?”

No luck today. “Hi, Mom.”

“Oh, hi, honey. How are you?”

If she played this right she might get something worthwhile out of her mother without revealing anything that would make her crazy. “I’m really tired. I just had a long talk with Kevin.”

“About what, dear?”

“Our relationship.”

“Oh. That doesn’t sound good.” Her mother sounded unusually understanding tonight. Jessica suspected she’d been waiting all her life for her little girl to come to her with man trouble. “What happened?”

Jessica groaned. What hadn’t happened? “He’s afraid that if people find out about us it’s going to cause me problems at work.”

“Why would it cause you problems at work to be dating a fireman? You work in a bookstore.”

Jessica slouched into the couch. “It’s complicated, Mom.”

“It sounds to me like he doesn’t want to make a commitment.”

Jessica shuddered. Commitment? Was her mother already marrying her off? “I think you’re jumping the gun, Mom. I’ve only been seeing him for two weeks.”

“Is he seeing anyone else or are you exclusive?”

“I don’t know. I don’t think he’s seeing anyone else. With his work schedule, I doubt he has time.” Jessica thought over the last two weeks. She’d seen him about every day he had off, and Bobbie said he didn’t date anyway. Maybe they were exclusive, if only exclusively screwed up.

“So you’ve been spending a lot of time together.” Her mother sounded smug. She was marrying them off in her mind.

“Yes, but mostly we’re working out.”

“Working out?”

“Lifting weights, running, stuff like that.”

“That doesn’t sound very romantic. Does he ever do things with you that you want to do?”

Oh good, now she’s up to our marital problems. “That is what I want to do, Mom.” Calling her mother for someone to talk to had been a terrible mistake. Her mother would never be the objective observer Jessica needed.

“You want to lift weights?”

“Yes, Mom. I want to lift weights.”

Her mother rephrased the question. “Do you want to lift weights because he wants to or because you want to?”

Divorce. Her mother had already managed to get as far as divorce because of irreconcilable differences. Kevin didn’t want to get involved until after the exam, and her mother had their entire relationship plotted out to a bad end. “Because I want to. Mom, I am capable of separating my wants from his.

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.