STAY WITH ME: Alaska Romance by Bobby Hutchinson

Author:Bobby Hutchinson [Hutchinson, Bobby]
Language: eng
Format: epub

At the window, Alex watched her sprint through the trees to her cabin. When she disappeared, he turned slowly, aware that, as always, Ivy left a hollow space behind her. The room felt empty without her in it.

He poured himself another coffee and sat at the table, trying to figure out what he was feeling. Hungry, and not for food. Guilty? Reluctantly, he admitted it to himself.

He should have thought through the implications before they made love, not after. She was a wildly passionate woman, but it wasn’t only passion between them. In spite of their differences, there was a bond between them that wasn’t just sexual.

He wanted to know her better. He wanted to confide in her, tell her things that didn’t much matter to anyone except him. He wanted, of all things, to meet Ivy’s mother and learn how her influence had shaped Ivy into the woman she was.

He felt a connection with Ivy he didn’t want to feel. Not here, not now. He was here on a journey of self-discovery. Feelings for Ivy would simply distract him. He finished the coffee and rinsed the cup in the sink, but he couldn’t clear his mind of Ivy as easily.

Or her father. Tom Pierce was a formidable force in his daughter’s life, and Alex knew that the older man would be relieved if he, like Roy Nolan, disappeared and was never heard from again.

Something had been niggling at him since his heated conversation with Tom the previous day. The whole time they’d talked, Alex sensed that Tom was hiding something, holding something back.

What had really happened that early spring morning along the deserted highway? Could Tom have had something to do with Roy’s death?

Alex dismissed that as ridiculous. Pierce might be a prickly son of a bitch, but he wasn’t a murderer. He’d have had nothing to gain from murdering Roy, for one thing. It wasn’t as if Nolan had a wad of money or anything else of value. His letters proved that he’d made the trip on a shoestring, leaving most of his money behind in an account for Linda.

And for him. Alex recognized that Nolan had tried to provide for them in some misguided fashion. It touched him that Nolan had made that gesture.

But what had drawn the man so powerfully to this wild and beautiful country? What was he searching for as he walked into the wilderness? Self-discovery? Escape? Enlightenment?

Maybe all three. And what was prompting Alex to follow in his footsteps? Self-discovery. Escape. Enlightenment, whatever that might be.

Or death? It wasn’t the first time Alex had entertained that thought.

As a child and a young teen, he’d been stubborn, willful, reckless, and he’d been beaten severely for it. Steve, an autocratic man and a disciplinarian, used first a belt and then his fists, arousing in Alex a confusing combination of fury, a hunger to please, and overwhelming resentment toward his brother and sister, who were never treated the way he was.

Dmitri and Zelda had none of

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