Stranded on a Storm Moon by Adam Carter

Author:Adam Carter [Carter, Adam]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-09-20T07:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER ELEVEN

She was only twenty-one years old, but Bethany Hart was right.

Arowana had never truly known her. When Hart had joined them on Jupiter’s Glory, the only person she had latched onto had been Hawthorn, and Arowana had more than enough to deal with to be bothered with her. Hawthorn did his good deed by visiting her, talking with her, trying to break her out of whatever mental problems she had. Hart had been through so bad a trauma it had scarred her, and Hawthorn was her only chance at recovery.

Arowana felt terrible that she worried her man was spending so much time with a younger woman.

It was only now, when Hart had fled the pod in tears, that she felt ready to tell him that.

“Oh,” was Hawthorn’s only response. “I didn’t know.”

“I never told you.”

“I knew about Cass.”

“What did you know about Cass?” Arowana asked icily.

“I knew you were jealous of Cass. I never knew you were jealous of Beth as well.”

Cassiel was another member of their small crew on the Glory. At eighteen, Cassiel was even younger than Hart and she clearly had a thing for Hawthorn. “It’s a bit difficult not to be jealous of Cassiel,” she said.

“No? Or you could just, I don’t know, trust me?”

“I do trust you.”

“Sounds like it. Iris, I don’t want to have to go through all this again, but you know full well I don’t like women. You know I blame women for every bad thing that’s ever happened in my life. You know I think they’re scheming, manipulative, domineering and always have to get their own way. That’s how I feel about women. You know that’s how I feel about women. Against my better judgement, I happened to fall in love again, but why would I complicate things by having an affair? If I did, I promise you it wouldn’t be with a woman.”

“Well that’s fine, because Cassiel’s barely a woman anyway.”

“And we’re back to that again.”

Arowana inhaled deeply, mainly to calm her down, because she knew if she responded straight away she would destroy everything all over again. “Forget Cassiel,” she said at last. “She’s not here.”

“Nor’s Beth at the moment.” He paused. “This jealousy you have for her, it was unconscious, right?”

“No, it was very conscious. I’d see you going off to her forge with a tray of freshly baked cookies and my blood would boil. I’d think about following you down, think about cutting off the air supply for the forge for a while, thought about a lot of things. I know it makes me a bad person, Gordon, but I can’t help it. What you’re doing with Bethany is a wonderful thing and I’m ruining all of that.”

“Please don’t say you don’t deserve to be happy, Iris. I could do without two of you doing that.”

“I don’t do relationships, Gordon. I hardly have any experience with them and I keep screwing things up.”

“That’s why relationships go two ways. You’re angry, Iris, you’re always angry. Is it the database?”

“No,” she replied angrily.

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