Wuther by V. J. Chambers

Author:V. J. Chambers [Chambers, V. J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 0101-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

1995

Heath opened the door of the tenant house and found Cathy there, flushed and nervous. It was late at night, and he’d been in bed. He was only wearing a pair of boxers. The only air conditioner in the tenant house was barely working these days, and it was too hot for any more clothes.

Her gaze flitted over his body, all his bare skin. She moistened her lips.

“Let me put something on,” said Heath. He walked away from the open door.

When he came back downstairs, she was standing in the middle of the living room, looking at the empty beer cans that had been left behind after the poker game.

“Do you have a cigarette?” she said.

“Actually, I quit,” he said. “But you shouldn’t smoke anyway, should you? Not in your… condition.” Thinking about her pregnant made him feel ill. It was wrong. All wrong.

She shrugged. “Just one wouldn’t hurt anything.”

He cleared the couch. “Do you want to sit down?”

She sat.

He stood.

She twisted her hands together in her lap.

“Why are you here, Cathy?”

“I couldn’t sleep,” she said.

“It must be so uncomfortable sleeping in that big, expensive house with your pretty little boyfriend. You do have such a difficult life.” He glared at her.

She bit her lip. “I… I guess it was a mistake to come here.” She started to get up.

He stopped her. “Tell me a little bit about how your relationship with Eli got so serious, Cathy. Because the last time I talked to you, you told me you were only interested in his money. That still true? Are you still hiding all the cash he gives you in a drawer somewhere?”

“Heath, you don’t understand.”

“No, I don’t. I don’t at all. Either you’re very shallow, which…” He laughed. “Let’s face it, maybe you are. Maybe I have very bad taste in women. I don’t know.”

“You were gone. You left. You didn’t even say goodbye. I had no idea if you were even alive.”

“Yes, and you drove yourself crazy looking for me, didn’t you?”

Her lower lip trembled. “I’m sorry.”

“Oh.” He gave her a mock-sympathetic pat on the head. “It’s okay, Cathy. I think everything will go much more smoothly if you admit to yourself that you were relieved I was gone, because you were free of me.”

She winced.

He felt her wince like a dagger in his heart. She had felt that way, then. Fuck. He walked away from her. He began to gather up an arm load of beer cans to take to the trash can. “Maybe you should go.”

He stalked into the kitchen and deposited the cans in a trash bag. When he returned to the living room, she was still there.

“I love him,” she said. “I do. And I thought that it wouldn’t matter that you were back. But I was lying to myself, because it does matter. Because you’re Heath, and I love you. It’s different than the way I love him. It’s like I’d forgotten that I was only half of something while you were away. But now, here you are, and I see you, and I notice the empty parts again.

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