Welcome to Harmony by Jodi Thomas

Author:Jodi Thomas
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Runaway teenagers, Contemporary Women, Friendship, Contemporary, General, Romance, Fiction, Domestic fiction, Texas
ISBN: 9780425235102
Publisher: Berkley Pub Group
Published: 2010-01-14T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 28

TYLER WRIGHT PACED THE HALLWAYS OF THE FUNERAL home. He had to try and find a reason that he could accept for his Katherine not answering any of his e-mails in three days.

He could think of none. Depression followed him like a shadow.

He turned the corner and passed down the hall with empty viewing rooms on either side. If he didn’t come up with an answer he could live with, he’d wear out the carpet.

Turning right again, he walked past the offices and copy room, thankful that his grandfather had built Wright Funeral Home in a square. At least he didn’t have to decide which way to go. The brothers who’d built the place had actually been wise: By making the hallways run along the outside frame, they could easily put in private sliding pocket doors between the rooms, allowing them to move anywhere in the building without being noticed. The last thing a grieving family wanted was to have a casket pass by.

On each corner, the hallway widened into a seating area large enough to hold twenty visitors waiting to pay their respects. Tyler now stopped at each corner to catch his breath before storming off down the next hallway.

After he’d passed his office the third time, he gave in and decided to check his e-mail once more. It was almost midnight. He had little hope she’d answer this late, but tomorrow seemed a lifetime away.

He stared as the latest e-mail came up. The subject line read, Sorry.

He hesitated, then clicked.

Sorry, Ty, things are crazy here at work.

He wrote back, I’ve missed you.

I’ve missed you, too. More than you know.

He read the words several times before answering, These last few days have made me realize how thin the thread is between us. If for some reason you didn’t write, I’d have no other way of reaching you. I could lose you forever.

He waited, staring at the screen, wondering if he’d already said too much, been too bold. Lost her. All she’d have to do was click Erase a few times and everything they had would be gone.

I understand, she wrote. Nothing moved for a minute, and then she sent, I suggest a plan. If for any reason one of us disappears and doesn’t answer back, the other agrees to go to Quartz Mountain on the first Monday of the month for three months and have dinner. If the other never e-mails or shows up to dinner, the one at the dinner table will order a drink and toast what we had with a smile and promise never to try and find the other.

Tyler wanted her to tell him who she was, where she was, any other way to contact her, but he knew if he did, somehow what they had would change, and he couldn’t risk losing her.

You have my word. If you disappear, I’ll go for three first Mondays and have dinner on the mountain. I’ll toast our friendship.

What if it’s you who breaks this off, Ty?

It won’t be.

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