Faith & Fidelity by Tere Michaels

Author:Tere Michaels [Michaels, Tere]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: ePub Bud (www.epubbud.com)
Published: 2012-02-13T16:00:00+00:00

Faith & Fidelity

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But that was a lie -- he wasn’t fooling himself at all. There were a hundred reasons to freak out and his original stress over being attracted to a man was just scratching at the surface of a much larger issue. Telling Helena didn’t count -- she was his best friend. She loved him unequivocally. She would never turn her back. And he knew Vic Wolkowski to be an open-minded person. But he and Matt were fast running out of compassionate, loving friends who would stand by them no matter what. Because if this was a relationship, with a capital R…

The door opened before he could complete the thought. Detective Douglasson from IA was calling his name softly and Evan suddenly had to stop the freight train in his head and be a cop.

He answered the questions, in his raspy voice, nodded and shook his head as much as possible to save the thin sound that he was able to make. Detective Douglasson was efficient and tight in his questioning. He didn’t appear to think Evan and Helena had done something wrong, he just needed to get all the information. No difficult questions were posed -- and Evan assumed he gave the same answers as Helena because the detective just nodded and grunted and scribbled things down in a little leather notebook. In a few minutes it was over and his hand was being shook. Douglasson left and Evan felt himself drifting off. He felt himself swimming in too much emotion, too many thoughts. He wanted to talk to his children but there was no phone on his bedside table. He’d have to ask the nurse…

When the door creaked open again, Evan awoke with a start.

He had been dreaming of his last vacation with Sherri and the kids…five days in Diamond Head, South Carolina, where Sherri’s cousin ran a small golf resort. The best part of the trip had been the drive down -- anticipation heightening with each mile, each revised itinerary. In actuality it turned out to be three days of rain, and two days of trying to relax after spending the previously mentioned three days in five rooms with six people. On the way back, while the kids slept, he and Sherri had talked about the far off days of his retirement…where they’d live, what they’d do. They talked of someplace warm, someplace from the crowd but in the end Sherri just laughed merrily and made him admit that (a) he’d lose his mind anywhere without sidewalks, and (b) they’d never move too far away from the children. ’Cause they were saps, and if there were grandchildren…

They laughed the rest of the way home.

That’s what he was dreaming of. All that laughing.

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