Sweet Anger by Sandra Brown

Author:Sandra Brown
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9780446570213
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 2009-10-19T10:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

BRECKENRIDGE WAS AS PICTURESQUE IN THE SUMMER AS IT was in winter. Patches of unmelted snow showed up like white blossoms on the mountains. The majestic peaks still wore their sparkling caps. The season had little to do with the ski resort’s charm. Its one main street was lined with shops and boutiques stocked with tempting merchandise year-round. The century-old buildings, many with gingerbread trim, looked just as quaint against a panorama of bright blue Colorado sky as they did with snow sifting around them.

Kari had been coming to Breckenridge to ski since she was in junior high school. But she’d never made the trip during the summer. She liked it this way, without hungry skiers queuing for valuable tables in restaurants, without the muddy slush, without the traffic jams at the one traffic light in town.

It was peaceful. That was what she needed.

She sat now on the deck at the back of the house and watched the sun sink behind the peaks. The snow at the summit glistened brightly, then took on a pink hue as the sun slipped behind the mountain.

She had been here for over two months. The year anniversary of Thomas’s death had slipped by unnoticed by everyone but her. She hadn’t been unusually sad that day. A year’s time had blunted the serrated edges of the pain. What saddened her most was that he wasn’t as clear in her memory as he once had been. No longer could she hear the sound of his voice in her imagination. Nor was his face as well defined in her dreams.

It was time to say good-bye.

How many had known about Thomas’s “flings,” as Pinkie had called them? How could she have been blind to his human frailties? She had tried to conjure up bitterness toward Thomas but couldn’t.

He had loved her. No matter what else he had done, she knew that he had loved her. He had been exactly what she needed at the time in her life when he came along. And she supposed that she had been a boost to his middle-aged ego. They had been good for each other during the years they’d had together. How could she feel bad about that?

Her mind felt cleansed and at peace. Her body had recovered from the ordeal it had been put through during the last year. She was rested. In another week she would return to work.

But what if they didn’t want her back? What if she had no job waiting for her? What if she had to start all over again for the third time in her life?

She stood up and stretched. “I’ll cross that bridge when I get to it,” she said aloud. Whatever the future held, she now felt ready to face it.

The refrigerator and pantry were grim reminders that she hadn’t been to the market in several days. But she was suddenly ravenous and decided to dress and go out to dinner. Her reinstatement into society might be awkward. She needed to be around people.

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