Waiting for You (RightMatch.com Trilogy) by Kathryn Shay

Author:Kathryn Shay [Shay, Kathryn]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: police officer romance, dancing school setting, Online dating site, about families, contemporary romance novel, trilogy kindle books, keeping secrets and telling lies
Published: 2012-07-11T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

By Saturday morning, Dana was bereft. In a particularly bad moment yesterday, she’d called Joey and copped out by leaving a message.

I can’t do it. I’m sorry.

She glanced at the calendar on the desk off to the side in her bedroom. Today was Spence and Annie’s wedding. A lovely day for it. Outside, the sun shone brightly and the trees swayed in the beautiful end-of-summer morning. Dana forced herself to confront how she was acting. Or wasn’t acting. Had she make a mistake by ditching Joey? It was unfair, and unusual, for her to be so indecisive, but she’d vacillated so much on whether or not to see him again that her head was spinning.

So she struggled for stark honesty. Could she risk entwining her life with somebody she couldn’t trust? Yes, maybe she could make that leap and Joe could prove he wasn’t holding anything back anymore. But as she’d told him, the larger issue was whether or not Joe could ever truly be happy with her after witnessing his father’s illness, experiencing the trauma of it and living with the inevitable scars it had left him with. Wouldn’t Dana and her limitations bring back those wounds every time he looked at her? Would his memories prevent them from being happy together? Then there was the original issue of her risking a relationship with a man who posed those potentialities. Coming out of her shell to date was hard enough, but picking someone with Joe’s baggage upped the stakes immensely. Maybe she’d rather return to her life before him than open herself up to hurt like Joe was capable of giving her.

Who knew she was such a coward! Despite the fact that she’d ended the relationship, the thought of losing Joe made her ill. She already missed him a lot. Leona, a beautiful woman with blond hair and a killer body, had brought the girls to the workshop, and Cole and Spence had taken turns picking them up. Joe had respected her wishes to stay away, but unfortunately, that made it easier for her to cop out.

Damn it! Damn it! Goddamn it! Dana was sick of second thoughts, sick of what her decision to not see Joe said about her. The overwhelming cowardice of it made her roll to the closet, yank open the doors and look up at the high shelves, where some fancy dresses she used to wear were stored. Without analyzing what she was doing, she got the pole with a large hook on its end out from its spot, snagged a box on the top shelf and let it tumble down to the floor in front of her.

Bending over, she picked the thing up, set it on her lap and opened the lid. Hmm. This one was her favorite dresses. Dusty rose, ankle length, sparkling with white, appliquéd flowers and rhinestones. Matching shoes were nestled beneath the dress. Removing the outfit from the tissue paper, she rubbed the silk against her cheek. A faint scent of her perfume still lingered on it.

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