The Right Time by Danielle Steel

Author:Danielle Steel [Steel, Danielle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Published: 2017-08-28T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter 12

Their relationship was confusing to Alex. Sometimes Ivan acted as though he hated her, other times as though he loved her, and she wasn’t sure what she felt for him either. She hated his caustic words and resentment, and the chip on his shoulder about anyone who had more than he did or had achieved something he thought should be his. And at other times, he was gentle and loving, and he brought her to heights in bed that bonded her to him in ways that frightened her too. It was not the relationship she had dreamed of or imagined, and yet at times she thought they were best friends.

She never took him into her confidence about her writing, and knew she couldn’t. And he sensed that there were parts of her she would never expose, allow him into, or give away. Alex was a woman with a secret, and he could never figure out the code. And she was adamant about needing time to herself, when she wanted to write. But she never explained her absences to him, or the distance she created between them when the book was on her mind. He still wondered at times if it was another man, but he found that hard to believe. Their sex life was astounding, and yet at times, she totally shut down and wouldn’t let him near her. She allowed nothing to interfere with the book he didn’t know about. As always, her writing came first. And she felt guilty for keeping part of herself separate.

She was debating about whether to go home to Boston for the holidays, when Fiona invited her to come to Ireland with her to spend them with her family. And Alex loved the idea. Ivan said he hated Christmas, and went somewhere on his own every year where he didn’t have to hear stories about Father Christmas and see people carrying presents or dragging their Christmas trees home. He said he was going to Morocco and invited Alex to come with him, but she either wanted to go home to the nuns, go home with Fiona, or stay in London, and enjoy a British Christmas. She wasn’t going to go to Marrakesh with him, ignoring the holiday entirely. She put up a tree before he left. In the end, Fiona’s invitation had the most appeal. Fiona was going to Ireland for a week and coming back to London on New Year’s Eve, to spend it with friends. Ivan was planning to spend two weeks in Marrakesh, so she’d be alone for New Year’s. She was annoyed at him for leaving, and said that their relationship shouldn’t just be about sex. She wanted to spend the holidays with him, but he was nonnegotiable about it.

“I don’t do holidays. They were rotten when I was a kid. And I don’t like sharing them with anyone now,” he said coldly. There were a lot of things about the relationship she didn’t like, the way he treated

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