The Wife He Couldn't Forget by Yvonne Lindsay

Author:Yvonne Lindsay
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2015-05-24T16:00:00+00:00

Eleven

Olivia clutched the now-cold mug of coffee she’d poured before sitting at the kitchen table. The breakfast she’d been cooking before the phone call from the lawyer had dried up in the warming oven. Xander had obviously finished cooking it, as she’d asked, and plated up their meals before coming to tell her it was ready. Before overhearing the conversation she’d have done anything to avoid sharing with him today. She’d finally had to throw the breakfast away, but she’d attempted to salvage the coffee. She’d even tried to drink it, but her stomach had protested—tying in knots as she wondered where Xander was.

She’d been frozen here since he’d left the house, alternately staring at the mug and then the clock on the wall as she worried herself sick about him. He’d been gone well over an hour. Unshed tears burned in her eyes. Where was he?

Maybe she should have run after him, wearing nothing but her robe, instead of remaining rooted to the bedroom floor until the front door had slammed closed. But she hadn’t. Instead she’d showered quickly and dressed, then debated getting in the car and driving around looking for him. In the end she’d decided that would be a futile exercise. She simply had to wait for him to come back. If he came back.

A sound at the front door made her shoot up from her chair, unheeding as it tipped over behind her and bounced on the tiled floor.

“Xander? Are you okay? I’ve been worried sick—”

“I’m going upstairs to get changed. Then you’re going to take me to where I’ve been living,” he said bluntly.

“To where—?” Her throat closed up tight again.

He meant to his apartment. She couldn’t refuse him as much as she wanted to.

“To my house, apartment. Whatever. Where I’ve been living. You know where it is, don’t you?”

She looked up and met the accusation in his stormy eyes. She nodded slowly. “Yes, I’ve been there once, before you came home.”

“Let’s not call it home,” he said bitterly. “It obviously hasn’t been my home for a while.”

She swallowed back the plea that she wished she had the courage to make to him. It could be his home again—it had been these past weeks. Why couldn’t he just let them start afresh? She knew why. Xander was the kind of man who did nothing without weighing all the options, without being 100 percent certain of whatever he did. He didn’t like surprises, and this morning had definitely been a very unwelcome one.

“Okay, let me know when you’re ready.”

“I’ll be right down,” he said and left the room.

Olivia took her mug to the sink and tipped out the congealed contents. Even thinking about the dash of milk she’d stirred into her coffee made her stomach lurch in protest.

The prospect of taking him back to his apartment terrified her. What if he remembered everything? The anger, the lies...the grief?

She had to face the truth. He may not want to even see her again after today.

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