The Starlight Fortress by Rawsontile Fiona

Author:Rawsontile, Fiona [Rawsontile, Fiona]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Publisher: Fiona Rawsontile
Published: 2013-11-16T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 16

After they arrived home, a group of neighbors came to ask Sterling out.

“It’s kind of early,” she heard him saying. “Why don’t you come in and have a drink?”

He let them into the living room and introduced them to Geneva. It was Phillip, his sister Larissa, and three college-aged kids. They must be very familiar with Harold, who greeted them casually and went upstairs.

“You sure you don’t want anything to drink?” Sterling asked Geneva after the others sat down with wines and beers.

“I’m fine. I had water earlier.” She forged a smile.

She hadn’t been feeling comfortable since Larissa came in. When Phillip stopped at Sunphere two days ago, she chatted with him briefly and knew he had a sister, who graduated from the best business school in Artorna three years ago and was now a financial manager in a large investment company. Unlike his brother, Larissa was tall and willowy. Her dark eyes weren’t large, but always glittered with light. Whenever she moved, there seemed to be a breeze around caressing her sleek long hair.

But that wasn’t what made Geneva uncomfortable. In the society she grew up, almost every woman was a beauty. Call it experience, or call it intuition, she didn’t need to look twice to know Larissa was having a crush on Sterling. Whether he was aware of that or not, she couldn’t tell.

“You need to treat us,” one of the kids said to Sterling. “We all cried our eyes out when we heard you were dead!”

“And you too!” Larissa said to his brother. “I can’t believe you lied to me when I called you.”

“I couldn’t tell you the truth on the phone, but I didn’t lie,” Phillip said with amusement.

“You didn’t?”

“Well, I said, he was ordered to leave, and his ship was bombed. I didn’t say he left, and I didn’t say he was in the ship.”

His words successfully provoked his sister. “How could I have picked up those details under that circumstance?”

“Oh, don’t you always brag about your composure when your opponents have lost their minds?”

“My bad.” Sterling raised his hands. “I was right next to him when you called.”

“You what?” Larissa gasped. “Did you know your mom was next to me when I called? She almost passed out!”

Geneva quietly left them and started strolling around. She had never been to such a small house before. What was it like to be with one’s parents all the time inside a couple of rooms? Her mom died when she was young. Although she was close to her father, she had to walk a long way from her room to his. Most of the time he wasn’t home, or he was meeting someone in the library or his study. In his later years, sometimes he went home for dinner just to see her, but didn’t stay overnight. She knew he had a girlfriend somewhere and saw their pictures in newspapers, but she never met her in person. She guessed because her mother died saving him, he felt guilty about another relationship.

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