Twice in a Lifetime by Clare Lydon

Author:Clare Lydon [Lydon, Clare]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781912019731
Publisher: Custard Books
Published: 2017-10-23T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eighteen

Sally leaned back in her new black office chair and took a sip of her coffee, just purchased from her building’s cafeteria. She glanced at her desk, neatly ordered with her notebooks, sketchpads, and her laptop. Natural light from her sixth-floor window danced around her workspace, and she could still smell the chemicals from where the cleaners had been in. She always liked the mornings: they represented a new dawn, a chance to start over.

Having a fresh start on her workday was easy: it just took a wipe of a duster and she was ready to go. It was the fresh start Harriet was asking her to consider that was causing her sleepless nights and clogging up her waking thoughts — and there was no magic wand that would make her decision any easier.

Sally had lived just fine without Harriet for so many years, but now they’d met again, could she carry on as if nothing had happened? She desperately wanted to think so, but reality was proving otherwise.

It had been three weeks since she’d returned from Chicago, from that kiss, and Sally still wasn’t back to normal. Seeing Harriet had shaken her up like a snow globe, and the storm was still swirling in her heart.

Harriet had sent her a few texts after that night, but Sally had ignored them, because she hadn’t known what to say. After a few days, the texts had stopped, but Sally was still checking her phone hourly, hoping for another.

Because while she’d done the sensible thing — the only thing she could possibly do by walking away — the aftershocks of that kiss and what Harriet had said were still rampaging through her, making her question every decision she’d ever made.

Harriet had wanted to try again, believing they’d bumped into each other for a reason.

Harriet was her first, the one who’d introduced her to the rest of her life, even though it had taken her some time to realize it.

And now she was back, asking Sally to put her faith in her. Asking Sally to trust her.

But that was the one thing Sally couldn’t do when it came to Harriet.

She could smile at her, she could laugh with her, she could almost forget the hurt she’d caused her.

Almost.

But when Harriet had asked her to give her another chance, telling her she was an adult now and that things had changed, Sally’s gut reaction had been protection: to batten down the hatches and not let Harriet in again, because what good could come from it?

There was a huge part of her that wanted to say yes to Harriet, to throw caution to the wind: just being in the same room as her ex-lover made her blood heat up, her pulse sprint.

Harriet had asked her to risk everything, to give her another chance, and Sally had gone with her head.

However, it was her heart that was making all the noise of late, clamoring for a retrial.

Because while her head remembered Harriet’s faults, her heart just remembered that kiss.

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