Dancing on Snowflakes by Jane Bonander

Author:Jane Bonander [Bonander, Jane]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, (¯`'•.¸//(*_*)\\¸.•'´¯)
ISBN: 9780671501105
Publisher: Pocket
Published: 1994-12-31T13:00:00+00:00

11

Susannah opened one eye and looked toward the door. It was barely dawn. The previous day was still vivid in her memory. It had been a perfect day. In her secret daydreams, she, Corey and Nathan were like a real family. Corey adored Nathan, and Nathan treated Corey like his own. And she loved them both.

Now, she was cold; she was alone in the bed. Turning toward the window, she found Nathan standing there, staring outside. Despite the warm memories of their day together, her stomach clenched, telling her something was happening. He had all the signs of a man on the move.

As if sensing she was awake, he turned, but said nothing.

She swallowed a fierce disappointment. “You’re leaving.”

He studied her. “It’s time.”

Realizing how awful she looked in the morning, she squirmed under his scrutiny. Her hair was all tangles. Harlan had told her that after she’d slept on it, it always looked like the back end of a horse, and that the freckles across her nose stood out like mouse shit.

“Corey . . . Corey will miss you.”

“And, will you?” He crossed to the bed and sat on the edge, tugging back the quilt she had tucked to her chin. He pulled it down, exposing her breasts. The cold air tightened them, pebbling her nipples.

She hoped he didn’t see the rampant pain in her heart. “I won’t lie. I don’t know how to be coy. Yes, I’ll miss you . . . very much.”

With a regretful sounding sigh, he flipped the quilt back over her bosom. “I have a job waiting for me, Susannah. I also have a lot of things to sort out.”

“About your wife?” She was certain he still thought about the family he’d lost. She often caught him staring off into space, his expression troubled and filled with pain.

“Yes,” he answered on a nod.

“And . . . and me?” she asked hopefully.

He sighed again, swearing under his breath. “Hell, yes.”

Whatever that meant. She couldn’t tell if it pleased him to think about her or not. She gazed at the window as faint streamers of light slanted through onto the floor.

“I’ll try to come back.”

She threw the bedding aside and stepped from the bed, naked. Aware that he watched her, she scrambled for her dressing gown. “Don’t make any promises you can’t keep, Nathan.”

“Susannah, I don’t know what to say.”

She tied the sash around her waist, pulling it tighter than was necessary. “Don’t say anything more.” She tried to ignore the knot in her throat. “You don’t owe us an explanation. You’ve . . . you’ve done more than I could have expected as it is.”

She walked briskly past him, pulled open the bedroom door and stopped. “Just tell me one thing.”

“What?”

Unable to face him, she asked, her gaze focused on the door, “If you knew you were going to leave anyway, why didn’t you go before . . . before the night of the party?”

The silence that hung between them was palpable, stretching to the point of pain.

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