The Castaways (Platinum Fiction) by Elin Hilderbrand

Author:Elin Hilderbrand
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9781602855519
Publisher: Center Point Pub
Published: 2010-08-15T05:00:00+00:00

And there's nothing beyond it I'm seeking

...

I wouldn't mind being dead

If I could still be with you.

Addison read the lines, then read them again. His heart floated. It was all he'd been looking for, a snippet like this. A love note.

He folded the poem and slid it into his front pocket. He looked at the heart, enthusiastically marking their twelfth anniversary. He pulled the poem back out. Had she clipped this for Greg? As an anniversary present? To write in his card? Or was it meant to be for Addison? Oh, please, he thought. It was a love poem, a beautiful sentiment, it was them. Their life together, short as it was, had been "beyond beyond." There was nothing beyond it Addison was seeking.

I wouldn't mind being dead/If I could still be with you.

He couldn't process that, for the obvious reasons.

For Greg? For Addison? There was nothing else for him here--nothing else! And so, fuck it, Addison was going to claim the poem. Tess had read it and thought of him, she had impulsively torn it out of the magazine to give to him or recite to him over the phone. He was fooling himself, maybe, but he was keeping the poem.

He rinsed his glass and tucked the bottle of Jack under his arm. As he was walking out of the house, he realized he hadn't found the present Phoebe had given to Tess.

What was it?

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