The Endearment by Lavyrle Spencer

Author:Lavyrle Spencer [Spencer, Lavyrle]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Contemporary, Fiction, Romance, General, Love Stories, Historical, Large Type Books, United States, Mail Order Brides, Frontier and Pioneer Life, Irish Americans, Minnesota
ISBN: 9780515103960
Google: ysT2tWkooogC
Amazon: 0515140813
Publisher: Jove
Published: 1982-01-02T05:00:00+00:00

"Nothing," she choked.

"Why do you cry, then?"

"I don't know ... I don't know." Truly she didn't.

"You don't know?" he asked.

Silently, she shook her head, unable to delve this mystery herself.

"Did I hurt you?"

"No ... no."

His big hand stroked her hair helplessly. "I thought it was ..." He begged, "Tell me, Anna."

"Something good happened, Karl, something I didn't expect."

"And this makes you cry?"

"I'm silly."

"No, no, Anna ... do not say that."

"I thought you would be displeased with me, that's all."

"No, Anna, no. Why would you think such a thing?"

But she couldn't tell him the real reason.

Unbelievably, he did not seem to know.

"It is I who wondered if I did right. All day long I thought of this and worried. And now it has happened and we knew, Anna. We knew. Is it not incredible how it was? How we knew?"

"Yes, it's incredible."

"Your body, Anna, how you are made, how we fit." He touched her reverently. "Such a miracle."

"Oh, Karl, how did you get this way?" She clutched him against her almost desperately, as if he'd threatened to leave.

"How am I?"

"You're ... I don't know ... you're filled with such wonder at everything. Things mean so much to you. It's like you're always looking for the good in things."

"Do you not look for the good? Did you not look for this to be good then?"

"Not like you, I don't think, Karl. My life hasn't had much good in it until I met you. You are the first truly good thing that has happened to me. All except for James."

"That makes me happy. You have made me happy, Anna. Everything is so much better since you are here. To think that I will never have to be lonely again." Then he sighed, a pleasured, full sigh, and snuggled his face into her neck again.

They lay silently for some time, basking. She touched the arm he'd flung tiredly across her and rubbed its hair up, smoothed it down. He idled his foot upon the back of her calf, using it to hold her near. They began talking lazily into each other's chins, necks, chests, anywhere their mouths happened to be.

"I thought I would die before this day was over."

"You too, Anna?"

"Mm-hmmm. Me, too. You too?"

"I worried about the craziest things."

"I didn't know if I should look at you or ignore you."

"I worried about those cornhusks all day."

"You did?"

He nodded his head. She laughed softly.

"Didn't you?"

Again she laughed softly.

"I did not know what I would do if you would not come out here."

"I was so relieved when you asked me."

"I will hurry to finish the log cabin, then James will have a loft to himself."

They fell silent, thinking of it.

Soon she asked, "Karl, guess what?"

"What."

"You lied tonight."

"I?"

"You told James we were going for a walk. You said `nothing makes a liar out of Karl Lindstrom` but something did."

"And something might again," he warned.

And something certainly did.

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