You Can't Hurry Love by Beth K. Vogt

Author:Beth K. Vogt
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Howard Books

SEVEN

February

Maybe this phone call was a mistake.

Maybe Elisabeth should have figured out a way to ignore the whispered refrains of the conversation between her and Jamie the Sunday after the wedding that replayed in her mind. Maybe she shouldn’t have gone searching for her high school yearbooks when she’d been home for Christmas, telling her mom it was just because her ten-year reunion was coming up in the New Year—and then flipped through the pages, searching for photos of her and Jamie. Maybe she needed to ignore the lingering sense of wanting . . . more.

But no. She had to go and call Tori. Ask how married life was. And then ask to speak to Peter.

“You want what?” Peter almost shouted the question at her through the phone line.

“Jamie Travers’s e-mail address.” Elisabeth ignored the pile of essays waiting to be graded. “I thought about calling him, but I think an e-mail might be a better first step.”

“First step to what?”

“Saying hello. Come on, Peter, I just want to e-mail him. Ask how he’s doing. And if he e-mails me back, then we can start a conversation.”

“Why?”

She hadn’t expected Tori’s husband to grill her like some TV detective when she asked him for Jamie’s e-mail address. She thought getting the information would be easy. That writing and sending the actual e-mail would be difficult, followed up by the even more challenging wait to see whether Jamie replied.

“Things didn’t end well between us at your wedding—”

“I know.”

“You know?” No wonder Peter was acting like some sort of self-appointed bodyguard for Jamie. “What did he tell you?”

“Nothing specific. We talked a few weeks ago and he said he was stupid to think that maybe you and he could start over again—”

Elisabeth jumped up, scattering papers across the top of her small dining room table, her heart rate increasing. “He told you that?”

“Yeah. He also told me that he was wrong.”

“Peter, please give me his e-mail address. I want to try to smooth things over with him if I can.”

“I don’t know if that’s wise, Elisabeth.”

“Why?”

“Because he deployed at the end of January. He doesn’t need anybody messing with his head—or his heart—right now.”

Jamie was deployed. Where did the air force send chemical engineers? Was he someplace dangerous? Did engineers go anywhere like Iraq or Afghanistan nowadays?

“Elisabeth, did I lose you?”

“I’m still here. I’d forgotten Jamie mentioned he was getting deployed.” She took a deep breath as she paced the confines of her apartment, hoping she didn’t sound like she was begging. “Jamie would like to get some mail while he’s overseas, right?”

“Last I heard, Chloe was e-mailing him.”

Ouch. She deserved that. “Okay, then. See? I’ll just e-mail him like . . . like Chloe. And if he doesn’t reply, I won’t e-mail him again.”

“I guess that’s fair enough. But don’t hassle the guy, okay? He needs to stay focused on the mission.”

“What’s he doing?”

“Even if I knew, I wouldn’t be able to tell you.”

“Peter, he’s just a chemist!”

“Do you want his e-mail address or do you want to try to guess what the guy’s doing?”

“Good point.

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