The Second Time by Winters Jade

Author:Winters, Jade [Winters, Jade]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub, mobi
Publisher: Wicked Winters Books
Published: 2018-01-22T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eighteen

Madison lay on top of the bed remembering the last three days. They had passed by in a blur— a whirling, head-spinning blur. The days had been spent working, with the two women examining in detail how the hotel was being run and making plans for what changes could be made to ensure that the problems they were currently facing could be avoided in the future.

Madison smiled as a vision of Darcie animatedly explaining her ideas and ways of tackling the issues they faced came into her mind. Darcie hadn’t changed one bit, she was still the ambitious yet overwhelmingly compassionate person she had been all those years ago. Madison’s thoughts turned to the evenings they’d spent together. The scrumptious meals, the moonlit walks on the soft beach and the passionate, sweaty nights in bed. Each morning they’d woken up exhausted but ready to step back onto the merry-go-round.

Three days of bliss, away from the stresses of business for at least some of the time. This was their last full day, they would be leaving the following morning, and Madison wanted, somehow, to make this last day special.

Madison rolled onto her side, watching Darcie as she slept peacefully, her eyes under her eyelids making a small flash of movement from time to time.

Madison hoped it was her that Darcie was dreaming about.

Her eyes slowly roved over the sleeping form in front of her, seizing the opportunity to take in every inch of porcelain skin she could see. It was beautiful, as pure as driven snow which, given where they were and the oppressive heat outside, was an unlikely comparison but that was what came to her mind, the soft curves of Darcie’s shoulders like two snowdrifts, freshly blown by winter winds into a shape, so pleasing to her eye she could do nothing but smile at the woman lying beside her. The woman she had lost but had now found.

‘You look like your mind’s somewhere else.’

Darcie’s croaking morning voice dragged Madison back to the present moment.

‘I was just—’

‘What?’ Darcie placed her hand over her mouth to cover a yawn. ‘Day dreaming?’

‘Hmm, yes.’

Darcie peeked up at her from one eye. ‘What was so amusing? You were smiling like you had some sort of secret.’

Despite herself Madison smiled again.

‘See you’re doing it again.’ Darcie pointed at Madison’s curved lips. ‘It’s God-knows-what o’clock in the morning and you’re grinning like a Cheshire cat. What’re you thinking about?’

‘I’m just happy, that’s all.’

Darcie groaned and pulled the covers up over her shoulders. ‘Me too, now can I go back to sleep please? It’s too early to be this happy.’

‘Sorry. I forgot you weren’t a morning person,’ Madison said.

She would have felt hurt if the two of them hadn’t had a similar conversation each morning for the last three days, and if she didn’t remember Darcie being exactly the same all those years ago. All those lost years ago. She felt a brief moment of sadness at that thought.

Gentle rhythmic breathing from Darcie’s side of the bed was Madison’s cue to get up.

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