His Dakota Bride by Lisa Mondello

Author:Lisa Mondello [Mondello, Lisa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2014-03-17T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

“I do. I have been going through hell without you, Sky.”

And she didn’t know the half of it.

“You have no idea what my life has been like.”

“Then tell me. I want you to share that with me.”

Skylar quickly glanced through the doorway into the living room. Alex was sitting on the floor with the bowl of ice cream in his lap. He was totally engrossed in the movie he was watching.

With her voice lowered, she said, “You don’t know the half of it, Wade. Jay isn’t a monster. I’m the monster. I should have never married him.”

“Then why did you?” He hadn’t meant his voice to sound so accusing, but from the range of emotions that crossed Skylar’s face he realized it had.

Looking wounded, she said, “I wanted to have a family. I was having a family. All by myself. But I didn’t want Alex to grow up without a father.”

“Why Jay? You had the whole McKinnon clan to step in and be a father to Alex.”

Her eyes blazed. “Don’t turn this into something it wasn’t. You were dead, Wade. Dead. You know, no passing GO. No collecting two hundred dollars. Game over for us. I realized pretty quickly that it didn’t matter who I married. No one was ever going to be you. So why not Jay?” She lowered her voice to a whisper. “I thought he’d be okay with Alex not being his son. I think it surprised even him that he wasn’t. He wanted more children. But deep down I knew it was because he wanted a child of his own.”

She turned her back to him and picked up the few pieces of silverware left on the table and dropped them into the soapy water in the sink.

“Anyway, he didn’t want to be in South Dakota anymore so he got a job in Casper. He didn’t tell me about the new job until he’d accepted it because he knew I wouldn’t want to go to Wyoming.”

“But he did.”

“It was away from here. He did the every-weekend-visit thing for a while. But the drive was tiring. Pretty soon every weekend stretched to every other weekend and then once a month.”

Hearing her talk about a man who’d shared her bed was killing Wade. But he hung on every word Skylar said, hungry to understand why they’d drifted so far apart. If he had any chance at all of winning Skylar over again, he had to know what was haunting her now.

“The hard truth of it is that I was relieved when Jay would leave. It was easier to be away from each other than to be together. I didn’t have to pretend when he was gone. That’s when I realized how unfair I was being to him.”

Her heavy sigh should have made him feel bad, but Wade couldn’t help but think the reasons Skylar couldn’t make her marriage work was because she was still in love with him. That gave him hope, even if Skylar wouldn’t.

“He wasn’t a bad man.

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