A Sight to Dream Of by PG Forte

Author:PG Forte [Forte, PG]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781880370476
Publisher: Chapultepec Press

Nick stood at the edge of the bluff behind the Buena Vista Bar and Grill and watched the flight of geese overhead. The sky was a deep cerulean blue and a brisk wind blew the scents of sage, chamise and blueblossom up over the cliffs. It had been a while since he’d felt the need to come out here. But this morning, after he’d dropped Kate off at school, he’d known he couldn’t go straight to work, and going home meant maybe having another confrontation with his mother. So instead, he’d headed for the coast. To the same place he always came when he needed to be alone.

I wasn’t alone the last time I was here, he thought longingly. He’d had Scout with him then and he wished she was here with him now. But since he couldn’t really talk to her about what was bothering him, what would be the point?

He took another drag from his cigarette and exhaled slowly. He didn’t want to think about Scout, or any of the things they couldn’t discuss, at this moment. So instead, he thought about the geese.

They were monogamous. He was pretty sure he’d been taught that somewhere along the line. They were vegetarians. They returned to the same nesting sites, year after year. They mated for life. Like swans and storks and…owls maybe? Also wolves.

Not people, though. Most people were too damn complicated for so simple a concept as fidelity.

He could hear the crashing sound of the sea as it surged against the rocks that lined the shore, and he leaned forward to watch. Smooth, glass-green swells rose and fell and shattered at the foot of the cliffs, sending up clouds of mist. The ocean was rough today, and that meant sleeper waves, those unpredictable, large waves that swept up out of nowhere to drag the unwary to their deaths. He was safe from them up here on the bluff, of course. Or at least he thought he was. But wasn’t that always the way it was with danger?

He headed back toward his car where that damn file box was still stashed in the trunk. It was time to get to work. Time to face a few hard facts. Time to deal with the mess he’d been handed.

Alone.

There’d been plenty of times in his life when he’d wanted or needed another person for either companionship or assistance. This wasn’t one of them.

He’d known—he’d always known—that what he and Scout had together was precious and rare, but he hadn’t ever realized just how rare. Now he did, and the knowledge was tearing him apart.

Pretty soon now, he’d have to share some of that knowledge. And when he did? How many other people would be torn apart?

There were a lot of ways to betray the people you cared about, and while keeping quiet when you’d found out something that they had every right to know about was maybe not the worst of them, it was still pretty bad. Not that confronting people with the kind of news that could wreck their lives was much of an improvement.

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