Summer in the South by Cathy Holton

Author:Cathy Holton [Holton, Cathy]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 978-0-345-52634-2
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2011-05-24T04:00:00+00:00

She had an absurd desire to please people. It was something about herself that had always driven Ava crazy.

In the beginning of her love affair with Jacob she had kept part of herself back. He was cheerful and vulgar, and she pretended a kind of bemused detachment, like an overindulgent mother with a spoiled child. But over time she lost her footing. It became a kind of competition between them, and she began to feel herself weakening, while he seemed to grow in strength and confidence. Unable to understand this relationship, she had finally seen a professional.

“I’ve tried to make myself over to please him and it isn’t working. He’s bored, I can feel it, and I don’t know if he loves me. He says he does but I wonder.”

“What about you? Do you love him?” The doctor, a bald and rather paunchy man, watched her with a benign expression.

She was quiet. “I want him to love me,” she said anxiously.

“And if he doesn’t, how would you feel?”

“Like a failure.”

Something had been exposed, a quivering nerve that seemed to run through the core of her.

Later, as she drove home through the rain, the words taunted her, clanging through her head like a fire alarm.

She did not see the doctor again.

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