Your Hand in Mine (Blackbird Series Book 2) by Lily Foster

Author:Lily Foster [Foster, Lily]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780998916743
Publisher: ShoreFront Books
Published: 2020-10-10T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-One

Leo

I hate traveling.

I used to love it. Used to love seeing new cities, eating foods that were exotic and unfamiliar. I used to love adventure.

Sitting in my roomy first-class seat that still manages to feel cramped and uncomfortable, my mind goes back to a summer spent backpacking through Europe. Beer and wine soaked nights in too many places to name.

I smile thinking back to the two weeks I spent in Santorini. Eleni…I thought I was in love with her without even knowing what the word meant.

Her English wasn’t so hot and I spoke virtually no Greek, so our love affair wasn’t exactly based on some deep mutual admiration or anything resembling it.

For two weeks I ate at the beachside café where she worked, waiting for her shift to end so that we could spend every night together. I entertained fantasies of bringing her home with me, as if a place like Pittsburgh was someplace to lure a beautiful twenty-year-old who already resided in paradise.

My seat mate looks my way when I laugh so I school my expression, but the memory of that morning, while it was the opposite of funny at the time, makes me smile now.

Giorgos. I still remember his name.

Her boyfriend walked in on us when he came back a day early from visiting with family in Athens. Everything is a blur, a frenzied, chaotic mess. Same as it was that morning. White sheets flying and twisting, heated words I didn’t understand, a fully-clothed guy fighting me to the death as I hit back hard, bare-assed and confused.

I moved on to the next place with my buddies. I think it was Seville. I licked my wounds for a few days and then got back in the game. I was a ladies man that summer—never was before and haven’t been since. I had a good run, I guess, but I’m not cut out for that kind of drama.

I came back after that summer, started graduate school and started my business. Got serious, as they say.

I was serious about Carrie in the beginning, probably because I was so distracted. But it took less than a year for me to know she was not the one.

I raise my hand to get the flight attendant’s attention and then order a scotch and soda. I don’t normally drink during flights because it makes me feel like crap, but thinking about Carrie sucks the life out of me. I need something to help me forget.

I try to go back to Eleni, but the face that’s gone hazy in my memory suddenly morphs into Skylar’s. I don’t fight it or scold myself like I usually do. No, I let her in and let myself focus on the things in this world that are good and beautiful. Settling back into my seat, I take a sip and think of her without guilt, and without one ounce of self-restraint.

She blew me away last night.

Sky didn’t tell us about the recital. I only found out when I ran into her friend Grace when I was leaving campus one afternoon.

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