Tassamara 02 A Gift of Thought by Sarah Wynde

Author:Sarah Wynde [Wynde, Sarah]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Fantasy
ISBN: 9781477631768
Amazon: B008A8C5F2
Barnesnoble: B008A8C5F2
Goodreads: 15699387
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2012-06-09T00:00:00+00:00

*****

Sylvie was bored.

Seriously, seriously bored.

And it was only the third day of her exile. Pulling aside the curtain on her hotel room window, she stared down at the busy street below. It was raining, hard, the wind whipping big drops of water that splattered and dripped down the glass, turning the scene into something out of an impressionist painting. That is, if there were any impressionist paintings that were mostly gray and bleak. Sylvie was almost bored enough to Google impressionist painters and find out, but instead she let the curtain drop with a sigh and turned back to the room.

It was lovely as hotel rooms went. Maybe a little bland for her taste, with the colors all whites and navy blues, but the four-poster bed that dominated the room was elegant and the Italian marble bathroom pure luxury. The television set into the bathroom mirror was an interesting high-tech touch. Sylvie didn’t actually care to watch television while she used the bathroom, but she appreciated the concept.

Jeremy, Ty’s husband, was a partner at a prestigious DC criminal defense firm and he’d taken care of the arrangements. Sylvie didn’t know the details and she was sure she didn’t want to see the bill, but her faint hope of heading to North Carolina to spend her enforced week of vacation with her mom, her step-dad, and her half-sibs had been shattered when her mom had called to ask why there were television news crews in the driveway.

She’d see them in a few weeks anyway. One of the nice things about being back in the States was getting to go home for Christmas. She hadn’t told her mom what she was doing when she ran away, but she called about a month later, after she’d enlisted and was partway through basic training at Parris Island and desperately homesick. Her mother had promptly moved to South Carolina, picking up a job as a waitress in a nearby roadside diner, and then followed Sylvie to Camp Lejeune in North Carolina. There she’d met a staff sergeant, married him and started having babies. After her solitary childhood, Sylvie now had two half-sisters and a half-brother, all teenagers. She smiled as she thought of them, remembering how excited her brother Sam had been about the television crews.

And then she sobered. Would Dillon have been excited? She looked at her phone, sitting on the nightstand next to the four-poster bed. He hadn’t texted her. And Lucas hadn’t called.

And she hadn’t called Lucas.

Was she being cowardly?

She thought the answer might be yes. It wasn’t that she didn’t want to call him. It was that she wanted it too much.

It was maddening.

She needed to do something to take her mind off him. But she’d already spent two hours in the fitness room and the weather was miserable for a run. She’d watched all the television she could stand. The hotel had a lovely little book room, but she was too restless to read.

She had her laptop with her, so she could work on researching Chesney again.

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