Summer of the Midnight Sun by Tracie Peterson

Author:Tracie Peterson [Peterson, Tracie]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9780764227738
Publisher: Baker Publishing Group
Published: 2010-07-05T21:00:00+00:00

“There they are!” Leah declared, pointing down the dock to where Karen and Adrik Ivankov stood. Karen, still tall and slender, looked very much as she had the last time Leah had seen her. She smiled and waved enthusiastically at Leah. Adrik, a man who had always seemed larger than life to Leah, did likewise. “Hurry, Jayce.” She left him to carry the bags and ran to where the couple awaited her.

Leah fell into Karen’s arms and hugged her close. Karen was the only mother Leah had known for nearly twenty years. It was so good to be with her again. Leah wondered now why she’d delayed so long in coming.

“I can’t believe you’re really here,” Karen whispered against Leah’s ear. “I’ve missed you so much.”

“I know. I’ve missed you too. It’s been so long.”

“And you’ve brought Mr. Kincaid back with you, I see.” Karen and Leah looked to where Adrik and Jayce were in conversation several feet away.

“I really had no choice. He showed up on the shore when I was ready to leave, and Jacob announced that he would accompany me.”

Karen turned her focus back on Leah. “What’s wrong with that?”

Leah smiled. Karen’s once-vibrant red hair was laced now with gray, but her eyes were as keen as ever. There would be no hiding the story from Karen, not that Leah really wanted to. “It’s complicated, to say the least,” she began. “You remember how I felt about Jayce back when I still lived here with you?”

“Yes,” Karen said, nodding. “And how you still feel about him.”

Leah nodded and sobered. “Yes.”

“But he still doesn’t feel that way about you?”

“I think not,” Leah said with a heavy sigh. “Yet he’s everywhere. He’s in my thoughts and in my heart, and now he’s here . . . at least for now. He tells me he has business elsewhere. So I don’t imagine he’ll stay here long.”

“Would it matter if he did?”

Leah looked at Karen. “I’m not sure. Sometimes I get the feeling he would like a second chance. I know that sounds crazy, because just as soon as I think that way, he does something or says something that proves to me he can’t possibly want that. So while on one hand I wish he would stay and allow us to start over in our friendship, on the other I just wish he would go.”

“I’ve just invited Jayce to stay with us for a while,” Adrik announced as they joined the women. “He said yes.”

Leah looked to Karen and shrugged. “See what I mean?”

Karen grinned. “I do indeed. But unlike you, I think it matters a great deal more than you’ll admit. I think once you let it all settle in, you’ll be glad he’s staying.”

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