Coming Home to You by Liesel Schmidt

Author:Liesel Schmidt [Schmidt, Liesel]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9781474007757
Publisher: Carina
Published: 2014-11-23T16:00:00+00:00

“He what?” From the look on Kate’s face, one might have assumed I’d told her Sam had asked me to have his baby.

She was in town again, having decided that nothing less than regular weekend visits would suffice, now that she and Ray were engaged. Fortunately for me—and Ray, of course—she had plenty of frequent flier miles and could easily make the hop. It gave all of us more time together, which also meant more time to reconnect and catch up on everything. In between talking about the wedding and plans for my store, we talked about Neil; about Paul and how he’d be proud of the way my life had been moving on; and now, we were talking about Sam.

“Yes.” I nodded solemnly, my legs curled up under me on the couch.

“Wow,” she breathed, leaning forward to reach for the wineglass I’d placed on the coffee table in front of her.

“And I was such an idiot, all of those times Paul would go to AA meetings and tell me he was going to ‘play poker with the guys.’ I believed it.”

“He never gave you reason not to, Zoë. Did he?” Kate took a small sip of her wine, burrowing further down into the couch.

I shook my head. “But he never drank. It should have tipped me off,” I replied.

Kate arched an eyebrow at me. “So you should have realized that Paul was a recovering alcoholic because of that? You’ve got no argument with that one, sweetie. A lot of people don’t drink because they don’t like the taste. Try another.” She took another sip of wine, bigger this time. “The deeper concern here should be why he didn’t trust you with this information.” She narrowed her eyes at me. “And what else he might have been hiding. Like other wives,” she said, her eyes widening ominously.

I reached out and smacked her arm, feeling my stomach lurch as her merlot sloshed dangerously close to the rim of the glass.

“Hey!” Kate squealed in protest. “I’m just trying to cheer you up!”

“Not helping,” I muttered, burying my face in the back of the couch.

“Okay. You’re right, I’m sorry,” she mumbled dejectedly, replacing her wineglass on the table. “Really, though, I don’t think you have anything to worry about. Paul loved you, and he wanted to spend the rest of his life with you. Maybe he was just ashamed of that part of his life, so he kept it from you.”

I extracted my face from the couch and shot her a look. “So what part of love, honor, and trust does that fall under? If Ray kept something like that from you, you wouldn’t trust him about other things, Kate, and you know it. He was an alcoholic. An alcoholic. And he didn’t tell me,” I said. “Kate, he didn’t tell me. I feel…betrayed.”

She reached out and took my hand. “I’m sorry, Zoë. And you’re right. I would feel the same way if Ray kept something this important from me. I don’t know why he thought he couldn’t tell you.

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