Texas Sunrise by Fern Michaels

Author:Fern Michaels
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corp.
Published: 2013-02-17T16:00:00+00:00

Maggie lay in the darkness. Faint moonlight seeped through the vertical blinds. She had no idea how much time had passed since she’d run up here like a child to throw herself on the bed. She cringed now with shame at what she’d done. How could she have reacted like that? How? She rolled over onto her stomach, burying her face in the pillow. How careful she’d been to stay on her side of the bed. She knew, without having to turn on the light, that there wasn’t even one wrinkle on Rand’s side.

Rand was the reason she was here cowering like a criminal. Rand was the reason she’d blurted out that hateful word, “outsider.” It wasn’t just Mam and her illness.

She flopped over onto her back. Ten minutes to twelve. She turned the light off. Earlier she’d heard footsteps in the hall: Sawyer’s clumping boots, then Cole and Riley walking past her door. None of them had knocked, none of them had called her name. She was a pariah now. She’d heard Rand talking to Thad and Cary in the courtyard. The three of them had driven off together. She hadn’t heard Susan, though. She’d counted on Susan to just open the door and whisper her name, but it hadn’t happened.

Her face burned with shame and guilt when she remembered the way she’d pleaded, sobbing at her mother’s door, begging her to talk to her, only to have Thad say, “Your mother doesn’t want to talk to you right now.” Until tonight, no matter what, her mother had never, ever, refused to listen, to offer advice, to help make things right.

That was a separate issue. Tomorrow, today actually, she could attempt to make things right with Cary, to explain why she’d acted the way she had. She could explain to Mam. Mam would understand. Rand. Rand was the problem.

Maggie was off the bed the moment her head started to buzz lightly. She threw open the window, taking great gulping breaths.

Rand was her reason for being. She had no one else. Sawyer was in New York with her family. Cole was in Japan with his. They didn’t need her, and that’s the way it should be. Mam had Thad. Susan . . . would have Cary, even though neither one of them realized it yet. Riley had his family. Rand had his daughter, Chesney.

She’d picked up on the change in Rand during the days he spent in Minnesota with Valentine Mitchell. He’d always admired Valentine, had said so more than once. The two of them had been together in a cozy little house in the Midwest, working side by side, eating together, riding together in the car, having drinks in font of the fire. Rand did love a good fire. She could picture the two of them laughing, talking, sharing secrets of a sort. And then, over drinks, looking into one another’s eyes and . . .

It had happened. That much she was sure of. As to the date and the exact hour .

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