A SEAL's Desire by Cora Seton

Author:Cora Seton
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance
Publisher: One Acre Press
Published: 2019-09-29T16:00:00+00:00

“Renata went up to the manor with Avery,” Riley told Greg when he finally made his way down off the wind turbine again and went looking for her. He was cold to the bone, his fingers frozen, but he’d gotten it to stop spinning. Whether or not he could start it again remained to be seen.

“Why?”

“Seeing you up there was making her nervous. Avery distracted her by saying the manor needed cleaning for our next guests.” Riley sighed. “It probably does. I’ll head up there now, too.”

Greg would have followed her, but his phone buzzed, and when he saw his parents’ number, he answered it.

“Greg, you haven’t called in ages,” his mother, Phoebe, said.

“Hi, Mom. Sorry, it’s been a little crazy.”

“You drew the short straw,” she guessed. The episode showing it hadn’t aired yet, but it would be soon.

“I did.”

“Have you found a bride?”

“I’m not giving you any spoilers.” He wasn’t sure he was ready to tell her about Renata.

“Fine. Call your sister, though.”

Her quick switch of topic threw him off guard. “What’s wrong with Eileen?”

“Nothing’s wrong, except the two of you hardly talk. And neither of you ever come home.”

“We’re just busy, that’s all.” He swallowed against a surge of guilt. She was right; he did avoid Greenside.

His mother was quiet. “I get that you two needed to sow your wild oats, but I hoped you’d return sometime to settle down. This is your home, after all.”

Your home, he wanted to tell her. His parents loved Greenside, but he’d felt hemmed in there, and Eileen had, too. She loved traveling as much as he once did, and she was rarely in her Santa Monica apartment. Back when he’d been a Navy SEAL, they’d played endless rounds of phone tag trying to connect with their erratic schedules until they’d gotten out of the habit of talking to each other at all.

If she was anything like him, she’d been afraid that if she spent too much time at Greenside, somehow the place would swallow her whole again, like it had when they were children. That had been their parents’ mistake—thinking Greenside could be their whole world.

“I’ll call her,” he promised, although he didn’t say when.

“Do it now,” his mother urged him. “Call me back tomorrow.” Before he could protest, she’d hung up.

What could he do but put the call through to Eileen? He tapped at his phone, lifted it to his ear and began walking slowly up the hill toward the manor, ready to leave a message on voice mail as usual, so when she answered after two rings, he was almost too surprised to say hello. “H-hey,” he managed finally. “Eileen. It’s me.”

“I saw your number. Is something wrong with Mom and Dad?”

His whole family was hopeless, he thought. “Nothing’s wrong. Just wanted to see how you’re doing.”

“I’m… fine.”

“Really? You don’t sound fine.”

There was a long pause. “It’s just… I lost my job. I got downsized,” she corrected herself. “I don’t think it’s going to be too long until my company folds altogether, actually.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.