Alexander, Phoebe - [Mountains 01-03] - Mountains Wanted; Mountains Climbed; Mountains Loved by Phoebe Alexander

Author:Phoebe Alexander [Alexander, Phoebe]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Mountains Wanted Publishing
Published: 2015-11-16T05:00:00+00:00

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It took a week, but he finally showed up.

Sarah had run through the potential scenarios in her mind hundreds of times by now. She questioned her motives, whether or not she really loved him, whether or not they really had anything worth preserving. Maybe she’d taken him, their relationship, for granted. It had seemed so easy, maybe too easy. In the end, she knew he’d have to come to her. Otherwise, it wouldn’t seem like he wanted to make the effort to fix what he’d broken. We had a promise, Sarah knew she’d argue, when and if he came. We had a promise.

He came to her office unannounced a week before the spring semester began when she was putting the finishing touches on the syllabus for the Human Sexuality course she was teaching. He didn’t even bother to knock, just pushed the door open and there he stood in the door frame, all 6’4” of him, crowned by his trademark shock of red hair, which looked longer than she remembered it being, as if he was letting it grow out. It made him look wilder and more charismatic than ever.

“Hello, Garrett,” she said calmly, as if she was expecting him, just barely glancing up from her computer screen in acknowledgment. She knew he wasn’t used to not immediately commanding someone’s attention.

He gave a little shrug accompanied by a smirk as he proceeded through the door, closing it behind him. He took a seat in the chair beside her desk and crossed one long leg over the other, his knee jutting into the desk. “We need to talk,” he said.

“Yes,” Sarah agreed, finally twisting away from her monitor. “Yes, we do. You first,” she offered, tossing the ball into his court.

He seemed perplexed, as if he would have placed a bet on her reading him the riot act before he could get a word in. Sarah smiled, using a trick she’d learned from her mother. Make him lay all his cards on the table first while I sit here and smile. Then I’ll react.

He cleared his throat and leaned toward her. “I really don’t have any excuses, Sarah,” he said. “I lied to you and for no good reason.” He sat back against the chair, anxiously awaiting her response. As if his work here is done and it’s all in my hands now, Sarah noted.

“Somehow none of that makes me feel any better,” she said at last after circling around his shallow admittance and still feeling hollow. Here is this man before me whom I want to love, she thought. I really do want to. I thought before that he was so mature and wise; this whole lie came out of left field. Now it’s so evident that he’s 10 years younger than me. All the right ingredients are there, but he seems half-baked. Like I need to pop him back in the oven for another five years and then give him another taste.

He remained uncharacteristically silent so she launched into the speech she’d rehearsed for the occasion.

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