A Cure for Love by Penny Jordan

Author:Penny Jordan [Jordan, Penny]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9781408998441
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2013-08-25T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIX

FOR once the weather forecast was accurate. Lacey looked up at the cloudless blue sky and then grimaced as she glanced down at her stain-splashed arms and legs.

The stuff she had bought to re-stain the wooden seat was thin and runny. She felt as though more of it had gone on her than on the bench.

Luckily she was wearing on old pair of shorts and an equally old T-shirt.

While she waited for the first coat to dry, she went into the kitchen and made herself a cup of coffee. The house felt unnaturally quiet. She put down her coffee-mug, her eyes shadowing as she recalled the years when Jessica had been growing up and the house had been filled with her chatter, her tears and her laughter.

She had told herself long before Jessica had left home for university that she was never going to allow herself to become a clinging mother, that she must accept that one day Jessica would grow up and away from her, and she had thought that she had come to terms with this.

Now, though, the tears burning the back of her eyes told a different story.

It’s only self-pity, she castigated herself mentally.You’re just feeling a bit down because…

Because she resented the way Lewis was establishing himself in Jessica’s life.

She tried to put herself in his shoes…to imagine how she would feel if she were suddenly to discover that she had an adult child. She moved restlessly round her kitchen. She didn’t want to feel sympathy for her ex-husband, to feel compassion for him and recognition of the very real shock it must have given him to realise that Jessica was his child.

Her life was complicated enough already without taking on that kind of burden.

Where was Lewis today? Was he with Jessica?

It was several seconds before she realised how damning it was that she had thought firstly of Lewis and only secondly of Jessica. She drank her coffee. She ought to be outside working, not standing here in front of a window, allowing herself to give in to what was becoming an almost compulsive desire to allow Lewis into her thoughts…her mind…her heart. She gave a convulsive shudder. If she was honest with herself, hadn’t he always been there, no matter how hard she had tried to reject the way her emotions clung to the memory of him?

Those nights in which she dreamed of him. She was starting to tremble, to feel the aching, weak loneliness and misery that remembering how her life with him had once been always brought her.

She was a fool, she told herself bitterly. She was clinging to memories that had no basis in reality, to a love which had never really existed…at least not on Lewis’s part.

Tears blurred her vision. She blinked them away. The garden seat would be ready for its second coat of stain by now.

She was just about to go out when someone rang the front doorbell.

Jessica. Perhaps it was Jessica, she thought excitedly, and then acknowledged that her daughter was hardly likely to ring the bell when she had her own key.

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