The Christmas Clock by Kat Martin

Author:Kat Martin
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Vanguard Press

Standing at the edge of the lake next to Teddy, Joe watched Syl’s little Honda Civic pull out of the parking lot. She had made an excuse to leave just minutes after he had made his off-color remark.

He shouldn’t have said what he did. He had never spoken to a woman that way before. But every time he saw her, the past seemed to surface, to rise up with agonizing force. Memories of lazy fall days on campus, the two of them lying beneath an ancient sycamore, Syl’s head in his lap as she studied for a test. Thoughts of shared afternoons by the pond.

He remembered the winter they had gone sledding. The snow had been soft and deep, the sun so bright it hurt his eyes. He had pushed the sled off a rise and jumped in behind her. The sled had flown as if it had wings until it hit a rock beneath the snow. He remembered how they had flown into the air and Syl had landed on top of him. He remembered their laughter, the soft kiss that made him want more.

He thought of the brutal days after she had left, the drinking and fighting, the trial and the days he had spent in prison. He thought of the hard, ruthless man he’d become just to survive inside those thick, gray walls.

It had taken him years to recover, to make a life for himself, to find his rightful place in the world. Then Syl had come back and his peaceful existence threatened to crumble, just as it had before.

Every time he saw her, a haze of anger settled over him. He wanted to make her pay for all the suffering she had caused.

He wanted to erase all the pain she had endured, the fear and the heartbreak.

He wanted to turn back time, wanted to be there when she needed him.

Today, he had discovered, he just plain wanted her.

Joe sighed as he stared out over the water. No other woman had ever stirred him the way Syl could with a simple smile. No other woman had ever heated his blood with a single glance. He thought he was over her, had told himself so a thousand times.

Now he realized he would never be over Sylvia Winters.

And the question became, what the hell was he going to do about it?

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