The Remedy for Regret by Susan Meissner

Author:Susan Meissner
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, azw3
Tags: Romance, Women’s fiction, Suspense, Contemporary, Inspirational
ISBN: 9781937573416
Publisher: Greenbrier Book Company
Published: 2012-02-25T11:00:00+00:00

Thirteen

I awaken in our hotel room to see that Blair, lying in the bed next to me, is awake also. She is watching me, expressionless.

“What time is it?” I say, yawning.

“Eight-thirty,” she says softly. Her voice doesn’t sound sleepy. I wonder how long she has been lying there, awake and unmoving.

“Did you sleep okay?’ I face her with my head on my pillow.

“Sort of. I woke up early and couldn’t get back to sleep.”

“Too much on your mind?”

She neither nods nor shakes her head. Blair says nothing for a moment.

“I should have guessed,” she finally says. “He was spending so much time at the office and he kept taking all these business trips. I bet they weren’t all business. I bet she was meeting him at those places.”

“Blair—”

“But I was too busy being the socialite, too busy showing off my girls. What an idiot I’ve been.”

“You’re not the one who messed things up,” I raise my head and rest its weight on my elbow.

“He had all those papers in his desk. In our house. He had a note from her in his pants pocket, Tess. He must have thought I was truly brainless.”

“He was the brainless one. Only a stupid man would leave things like that lying around his own house.”

“Or a desperate one.”

“What?”

“I wonder if he was leaving clues for me so that I would find out on my own. I would’ve gotten mad and confronted him. I would’ve yelled at him and told him to get out. It would have been so much easier to walk away from an angry wife than a wounded one.”

“Don’t do this,” I sit up in my bed and throw my legs over the side. “Don’t torture yourself like this. You didn’t do anything you should be sorry for.”

“I’m just saying I should have figured it out,” she says, rather emotionless.

I’m about to say something else, something about not letting bitterness ruin the rest of her life, when the phone rings in our room.

I reach over to the bedside table between us and pick up the receiver.

“Hello?” I say.

“Good morning, Tess. This is Corinthia. I hope I haven’t called y’all too early.”

“No, no, Corinthia. We’re up.”

Sort of.

“Well, I waited as long as I could. I have a visitor here at the house. A lady. She would very much like to meet you and Blair.”

“Corinthia, what’s this about?”

“Let’s just say I think you will very much like to meet her, too. Can you come over?”

“Um, yeah, sure. We haven’t eaten yet, so it might take a little…”

“Oh, just come on over. I’ll make y’all some waffles.”

“Well, all right. We’ll get there as soon as we can. Bye.”

I hang up. Blair is sitting up, looking a little peeved.

“What is so important that we have to go over there right now?” she says.

“She said there is a lady at the house who wants to meet us. She said we would want to meet her, too.”

“Is this about the baby?” Blair says, interest entering the picture.

“She didn’t say.

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