Havana Sunrise by Kymberly Hunt

Author:Kymberly Hunt
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-58571-523-7
Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corp.
Published: 2010-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE

A fairly late-season tropical depression had formed in the Atlantic. The storm center in Miami was monitoring it closely because it was threatening to become a full-fledged hurricane. By mid-week it had earned a name, Ivan, and it appeared to be heading for Jamaica. The residents of Miami were hoping it would change course or die out, but there was a chance that it could hit the Florida coast.

The potential threat was only a passing thought to Nicole at this point. The last big hurricane to hit Miami had been Andrew, and that was before either she or Allyson had moved down. Since then, there had been many smaller storms and others that just blew over. She wished the storm called Julian would blow over, because that was the one constantly on her mind.

On Monday, as she was driving him to school, Trey, using a subtle form of sign language, reminded her that Julian was supposed to give him a guitar lesson that evening. Nicole’s heart hammered.

“Well, Trey, I really don’t know if that’s going to happen. Julian’s a very busy man. How about if I get another teacher for you?”

Trey glared at her indignantly and furiously signed no.

“Honey, sometimes things happen and people can’t do the things they said they would.”

But he promised, Trey’s eyes told her.

“I know he promised, but…” She stopped abruptly. There really was not much she could say. The sooner Trey faced the reality about Julian the better. The hero worship could not go on. “Well, when the time comes we’ll just see,” she finished.

Trey seemed satisfied with that. He was absolutely positive that Julian was going to show up. She cringed to think about how disappointed he would be and she was going to have to come up with something to placate him. He had been sleeping with that guitar since it had been given to him.

Back home, Nicole yanked the vacuum cleaner out of the closet and started doing the carpet. There were several other things that needed to be done as well, laundry and food shopping among them. The phone rang. Switching the vacuum off, she picked it up.

“Hello, Nicole,” a familiar voice said.

“Julian?” she questioned, nearly strangling on her own voice.

“I promised Trey that I would be by at around seven-thirty tonight, so if it’s okay with you…”

“Yes…yes. Of course…I mean, I’ll be working, but Allyson won’t mind.”

“Fine. Bye.”

The distinctive click of his putting the receiver down echoed in her ear. Her elation upon learning that he had no intention of disappointing a little boy sank at the perfunctory tone he’d taken with her. “Well, what do you expect?” she chided herself out loud, still cradling the phone’s buzzing receiver. She had wanted to quickly tell him about the ominous fan mail, but he hadn’t given her a chance.

* * *

Two days later, Julian entered his home. He had just gotten back from headlining a music festival in Puerto Rico. After the show, the nights had been wild, and so had his behavior.

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