The Color of a Promise (The Color of Heaven Series Book 11) by Julianne MacLean

Author:Julianne MacLean [MacLean, Julianne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Julianne MacLean
Published: 2016-07-28T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-three

Jack

As I watched Meg Andrews disappear through the sliding glass doors of the hotel, I marveled at the fact that I might be entertaining a bit of a crush. It was a rare and unexpected thing, especially in circumstances like these, where I was focused on covering a major global disaster.

Last night, a commercial airliner had narrowly missed crashing into my parents’ house—by a mere few hundred yards. We were all lucky to be alive, and today, not a moment had passed where I didn’t think about that.

Or the poor dead child and the battered teddy bear I had seen in the darkness late last night.

The memory caused a knot in my stomach and a heaviness in my chest. No doubt, the images would be burned into my consciousness for the rest of my life, and beyond.

For that reason, I, like everyone else in the world, wanted answers about why this tragedy occurred, and I wanted assurances that it would never happen again. Maybe that was an impossible dream, but I wanted it, all the same.

So did Meg Andrews. She struck me as an exceedingly competent professional who was deeply and passionately motivated to determine the cause of an accident, and make recommendations for improvements to safety and security. With people like her at work on the investigation, I believed we were in good hands.

But there was something else about her that caused a curious spark of interest in me—something outside the fact that I found her mind-bogglingly attractive, even in those unflattering black trousers, black work boots and bulky NTSB jacket.

Meg wore no makeup. Her blond hair was tied back in an untidy ponytail, but that worked for me, because I had never been into the glamorous types. I’d lost interest in women like that at a very young age.

Consequently, I hadn’t been able to take my eyes off Meg for most of the afternoon. There was something about her that struck a chord in me the instant she got out of the car and walked toward me, across the parking lot. I’d felt it even before we spoke a word to each other.

Some people might call it love at first sight, but I knew it wasn’t as simple or romantic as that. It was a deeper, more longstanding recognition. Though I had no idea who Meg might have been to me in another life and time, I knew she was someone. And this was significant, because I’d never felt this way about anyone in my current life except for Katelyn, which was why I had once believed she was the only one for me.

It turned out that she wasn’t. She had been the one for my brother.

All that aside, this feeling I had about Meg was not the same. With Katelyn, I had conscious, vivid memories of our past together, even before I met her. With Meg, there was only an intuitive sense of familiarity and connection. I wondered if I would ever know who she was, with certainty.

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