The Christmas Bride by Heather Graham

Author:Heather Graham [Graham, Heather]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781488025310
Publisher: MIRA
Published: 2016-10-31T22:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 5

The week passed in a whirl.

And while it was happening, Cary had to admit that it was the best time she could remember having.

For one thing, she became a passable skier. Between Jason and Angela, she had plenty of help. And plenty of laughter each time she or Danny pitched into the snow.

The laughter. Perhaps that was what she would remember the most. Or maybe it was the warmth, the quiet evenings. Or maybe the sheer excitement of feeling alive and aware and sensual again.

He told her to relax, to try to have fun.

And she did. They swam; they skied; they ate. They spent time with the children, and they spent time alone. They took lazy walks, and they played in the privacy of the Jacuzzi in Cary’s room. They listened to the endless hum of Christmas carols heralding the season, and they went on sleigh rides with bells jingling.

Danny had the time of his life.

But the week came to an end, and though Jason acted as if nothing needed to change because they went back, Cary knew that it would. The week had been a fantasy. Now they were in the real world. It was an uneasy feeling, and as she lay awake the Sunday night before she had to go to work, she regretted what she had done even as she dreamed about the days gone by.

And then there was Jason.

Courteous, charming. He’d made her laugh so easily. And she’d never imagined a more tender or exciting lover. But now it was time to remember that he moved swiftly, that no matter how easy he had been to be with, he was still in love with Sara, and if he thought that Cary was coming too close, he would move on.

She slept very little that night.

Monday morning passed by without her seeing him. She had lunch with June, determined that she wasn’t going to give anything away. Nothing. And despite June’s persistence, she stuck to her story that it had been a nice week, that Jason had been charming, that Danny and Angela had enjoyed a great time—and nothing more.

She thought she would see Jason sometime during the day, but she didn’t. And she didn’t know whether she was anxious, or very, very glad.

A second day passed without her seeing him, and then a third and a fourth. She lay awake at night, tossing and turning. She remembered his every touch, and she clenched her teeth tightly, thinking how ironic it was that she had finally fallen in love again.

With a man who not only couldn’t love her, but didn’t even want to see her again.

She had warned herself. Again and again, she had warned herself.

By Friday she had stubbornly convinced herself that she was not going to go from living in one kind of hell to living in another. If he asked her to dinner, to a show, to coffee—to anything—ever again, she would refuse.

To make matters worse, June plagued her at lunch every day. And it was the Christmas season.

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