My Give a Damn's Busted by Carolyn Brown

Author:Carolyn Brown [Brown, Carolyn]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Romance
ISBN: 9781402239281
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Published: 2010-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

Larissa drew the curtains back in her hotel room and looked out over Dallas. Lightning zigzagged through the sky. Thunder followed closely on its heels, adding the drumbeat to the tinkling cymbals that the rain produced.

“Nature’s country music,” she mumbled. She missed the Honky Tonk. Luther would have opened the doors five minutes ago and Sharlene would have everything shining behind the bar. That girl was one of those miracles sent to the Honky Tonk by angels. Well, maybe not real angels. Larissa doubted if the heavenly kind would send someone with Sharlene’s bent toward cussing but maybe from honky tonk angels. Her middle name was organization. Her bubbly personality and quick wit made all the regulars love her.

Larissa had been ready for half an hour. She’d paced the floor for fifteen minutes, wishing she had the nerve to call Hank since she was in his town. But she couldn’t reopen that can of worms no matter how much her heart ached for him.

She wondered where he was that rainy night in Dallas. Was he working late in his office? How far was he from her right then? Was he watching the gray clouds drop buckets of water on the town from the window in his corner office? Had they found another small town to buy for their amusement park?

Her cell phone rang.

“Hello.” She picked up her purse and started for the door.

“Larissa, it’s Hank. Do you have time to talk a few minutes?”

She stopped mid-step. She’d been expecting to hear her mother’s voice, not Hank’s. The old adage about thinking about the devil and he will appear came to mind as she sunk into the recliner beside the window.

“Are you there?” he asked.

“I’m here. Why are you calling?” she asked.

“Can we meet and talk?”

“Hell, no!” she said.

“I’ll meet you anywhere. Honky Tonk. Your front porch. The lake. The Dairy Queen in Stephenville. I just want to talk, to explain now that there’s been some time. I need closure if nothing else,” he said.

“I can’t think about that tonight, Hank. I’m about to leave and, honey, you don’t deserve closure,” she said.

“Are you leaving Mingus? Where are you going? Will you have the same cell phone?” His voice sounded frantic.

“No, of course not. I wouldn’t leave Mingus for half the dirt in Texas. I’ve got plans that aren’t a bit of your business and I have to leave now.”

“Is it another man? Have you found someone else?” he pressured.

“Like I said, it’s really none of your business, is it?”

“Can I call again?”

“Give it a week,” she said.

“Okay, one week from today then. Good-bye.”

She flipped the phone shut. Closure? She needed it more than he did but a meet and talk wouldn’t bring her a bit of closure. It would just make her want him more. She shut her eyes and remembered the day at the lake and how his body felt next to hers in the cool lake water. The afterglow when they’d made love and the sweetness of sleeping in his arms, wrapped up in a blanket like they were in a cocoon.

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