What if I Fall: The Pocket Watch Chronicles by Ceci Giltenan

Author:Ceci Giltenan [Giltenan, Ceci]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Duncurra LLC
Published: 2017-08-01T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

Thursday, August 3, 2006

Sara’s apartment

Sara and Benedict had arrived at her apartment late the previous evening. Scotland had been wonderful. They had seen and done so much it was hard to believe they’d only spent eight days there. They had staged the accident on Friday afternoon. They had started their climb from right outside their cottage. Because they didn’t need a driver, Hamish stayed behind, but he’d nearly had kittens when they returned with Benedict having suffered a head injury.

The nearest hospital was thirty-five minutes away, in Broadford, on Skye. They kept him in the hospital until Sunday, by which time they had ruled out serious brain damage, although the doctors were puzzled by his memory loss. Gabe assured them he had already made arrangements for Benjamin to see Dr. Gerald Rose, an expert in atypical amnesia at New York University Hospital Center, NYUCH.

They had flown by private jet to New York on Monday. Dr. Rose had insisted on performing the battery of tests that would have been expected before allowing Benjamin Talbot to leave NYUHC. But finally, he released Benedict yesterday and Benjamin’s assistant had sent a car and driver to bring them home from New York.

It had been almost surreal returning to her apartment. She had been gone nearly four weeks but it felt like a lifetime. The fact that she was desperately in love with an eighteenth-century shipbuilder in Benjamin Talbot’s body was still hard to believe.

But when they’d gone to bed in her bedroom and he’d made love to her, she knew everything was right. The universe was unfolding as it should.

And now, standing in her kitchen cooking breakfast for Benedict, she again had that sense that she had found her soulmate and everything was exactly as it was supposed to be.

Benedict entered the kitchen, fresh from the shower.

Sara gave him a quick kiss as she put the plate of scrambled eggs and scrapple in front of him. But Benedict put his hand behind her neck in order to give her a much more satisfying kiss.

When he ended the kiss, she couldn’t suppress a happy giggle. “Eat your breakfast.”

“I’d rather nibble away at your sweetness.”

“Trust me, the eggs will be more satisfying.”

“Ah my precious lass, perhaps they’ll be more filling, but nothing can be more satisfying than kissing you.”

Dear God. No one had ever said anything so romantic to her. She sighed and kissed him again before saying, “I tend to agree.” Then she sat in the chair next to his and took a sip of her coffee. “Are you worried about meeting your father today?” She had stopped referring to anything relating to Benjamin in the third person. Benedict was Benjamin Talbot now and had made the decision to stay. Dr. Rose, Elsie, and Gabe all agreed this was the best course.

Although Sara was still having a little trouble with it, Gabe and Elsie had also encouraged her to start calling him Benjamin all of the time, even in private. “You will be much

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