Unruly by Cora Brent

Author:Cora Brent [Brent, Cora]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

CLAUDIA

I have never handled surprises gracefully and Easton had presented one hell of a bombshell. Jack had told me Easton wouldn’t be here for Christmas. He’d told me that before I even decided to make the trip myself. As I was booking my own plane ticket I was sure Easton’s guaranteed absence had nothing to do with my plans.

Of course that was a lie. In fact, I was the worst kind of coward.

A year and a half is not a really long time, unless it’s thick with guilt and angry silence. Whatever news I’d learned about Easton I’d received in incomplete snippets from Jack and Rocco. I never asked for details. He’d torn up every pitching record in sight during his freshman year. Detroit had grabbed him during the recent MLB draft. He was training down in Florida and was slated to start in the minor leagues this spring. I had every reason to believe he’d never told anyone about our wild times last summer and I was grateful. He didn’t really owe me that consideration. After all, I’d skulked away like a gutless bandit and caught the first plane to Arizona without looking back, without even saying goodbye.

Easton flung open the bathroom door and caught me in a daydream as I lingered in the hallway. I wasn’t thinking about anything in particular; only the taste of his tongue and the feel of his hands.

“You waiting for the bathroom?” he asked, running a comb through his wet hair without looking at me.

“Yeah,” I answered because the hallway was no place to talk about sex and regrets.

“All yours,” he said curtly and then squeezed by without touching me at all, quite a feat since the hallway was really very narrow. He hadn’t been pleased to see me sitting there in the kitchen when he came through the door. I knew that much.

Jack had taken the baby from me while Anya cooked breakfast. He carried Allison away while she wrapped her chubby arms around his neck and drooled. I felt a small internal pang as I watched the two of them. It wasn’t jealousy. Who could possibly be jealous of a baby? It was something though.

I leaned against the wall, which happened to adjoin the kitchen. I heard Easton join his sister in there and pull a chair out. She asked him a lot of bright questions and he answered them cheerfully. He’d traveled by car all the way here with a friend, a shortstop who had some family up in the Catskills. He would be in town for two days, until his buddy swung through to pick him up for the long drive down south.

“Where did Claudia go?” Anya asked.

“She’s in the shitter.”

“Go ask her if she wants some eggs.”

“I’m not gonna go pound on the door while she’s sitting on the toilet. If she’s hungry she knows where the food is.”

“I’ll make some extra, in case she wants any.”

Easton’s voice was scornful. “It’s Claudia. She’ll never tell you what the hell she wants.

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