White Mountain by Dinah McCall

Author:Dinah McCall [McCall, Dinah]
Language: fra
Format: epub
Tags: Contemporary
Publisher: Mira
Published: 2010-11-21T23:00:00+00:00

By the time Isabella got into her room and undressed to take a shower, she was shaking. She reached for the soap as she stepped beneath the spray, but it slipped through her fingers and fell to the tub.

She stared down at the pink orb as it lay between her feet, watching the faint flow of melting soap slide toward the drain. In that moment, she saw her life in the very same way. The foundation that had been her life was sliding out from under her, just as the soap had slipped from her hands. No matter how hard she tried to stay focused, things kept getting in her way.

The logical part of her said that she couldn’t really care for Jack Dolan—that she was just transferring her emotions to a living, breathing man because the other men in her life kept dying. But the emotional part of her knew that if Jack Dolan were only willing, she could very easily give him her heart. Unfortunately, he had not only refused her willingness to make love, but, in essence, had refused her, as well. And therein lay her pain.

She tried to laugh, but it came out as a sob. Weary all the way to her soul, she went to her knees, covered her face with her hands and started to cry. Water pelted her head, running down her face and mingling with her tears. She cried until her eyes were swollen and her head was one giant ache. Finally she dragged herself to her feet and scrubbed herself raw. Even after she emerged from the shower, she knew what she’d done had been symbolic, rather than resulting from a need to be clean.

As she was drying off, the phone in her living room began to ring. She started to answer it, then thought of Jack and changed her mind. Finally the ringing stopped. She toweled her hair until it was partially dry, then wrapped herself in a thick cotton robe, stepped into her favorite house shoes and went into the tiny kitchen.

As she began to brew a pot of coffee, a gust of wind blew against the windows, rattling the panes. She glanced toward the windows, shivering as she did. The approaching storm they’d seen over the mountains was finally here. It was too early in the year for snow in the valley, but she knew the rain would be cold, making for a dreary day tomorrow, which suited her mood just fine.

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