First Class Farewell by Aj Harmon

Author:Aj Harmon [Harmon, Aj]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction, Family Saga, Romance, Contemporary, Sagas
Amazon: B00GPZ62BK
Publisher: ABC's Legacy, LLC
Published: 2013-11-14T05:00:00+00:00

13.

Awakening

For half of her life, Shelby had been seeing psychiatrists, the first being court-appointed in Oregon. Yet a dream had been one of the most powerful forms of therapy she’d had. A dream where a little girl had had the courage to say what her adult self had been unable to articulate. And it was life changing.

Stretching in the white sheets, Shelby smiled. The sunlight poured through the window, just as the moonlight had a few hours before. The air was crisp and her mind was clear. It almost felt as though she was on the precipice of a new beginning…that a new chapter was starting and the pages were all blank just waiting for her to write her own story.

What a wonderful way to start the day, she thought as she stood and stretched again. The possibilities were endless.

As she quickly dressed and made her way downstairs, activity had already begun. Cynthia was cracking dozens of eggs into a huge bowl and little feet were running everywhere. Walking to the huge island in the kitchen, she pulled out a stool and slid next to Sophia who was sipping on some orange juice. Pleasantries were exchanged and Janie offered her a cup of coffee, which she accepted graciously. Taking a sip, she noticed Adam shuffle through the glass door and fall into an arm chair just beyond the kitchen in the great room.

“Morning, sweetheart,” Janie called. “Coffee?”

Adam grumbled his reply sending Janie to the task of filling another cup and then refilling the coffee maker, ready for the rest of the family who hadn’t yet descended.

“You didn’t sleep well,” she frowned as she handed the cup to her son. “Go back to bed.”

Adam thanked her for the drink as she hurried back to help Cynthia with the task of making breakfast. He sipped from his cup slowly.

He hadn’t slept well. Tossing and turning most of the night, he finally got up before dawn and went for a run. Since his days of playing baseball in college, he’d used physical exercise as a way of keeping his mind clear and focused. This time, however, it hadn’t worked.

The thought of Shelby becoming his wife had shaken him. He’d never thought of her as a potential partner. She’d been a friend…a good friend but she had rebuffed his single attempt at moving past that and he’d respected her wishes and backed off, even though he thoroughly enjoyed her company and used every possible excuse and reason to see her as often as he could.

But wife? No. That thought hadn’t entered the realm of possibility. He didn’t even know that was what he’d wanted…until last night when it had bulldozed him.

Shelby was the perfect package. Her blonde hair and blue eyes made her look like the girl next door, but her full lips and perfectly rounded breasts made her a candidate for Playboy magazine. She was voluptuous, no doubt about it. And now that the thought of her as his wife, an intimate partner, was in his head, and he couldn’t shake himself free of its grip.

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