In Dreams by Nora Roberts

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.This was after making my bed and eating abalanced breakfast, of course."She slithered down so that she could punctuate her words with little kisses overhis shoulders and chest."I arrived at the shop precisely thirty minutes beforeopening, in order to see to the morning paperwork and check any displays thatmight require updating.Thirty minutes for a proper lunch, fifteen minutes,exactly, at four for a cup of tea, then close shop and walk home by that sameroute."She worked her way up his throat."Mmmm.Watched the news during dinnermust keep up with current affairs.Read a chapter of a good book before bed.Except for Wednesdays.Wednesdays I went wild and took in an interestingfilm.And on my half day, I would go over to my mother's to lecture her."Though her pretty mouth was quite a distraction, he paid attention to her words,and the tone of them."You lectured your mother?""Oh, yes." She nibbled at his ear."My beautiful, frivolous, delightful mother.How I must have irritated her.She's been married three times, engaged doublethat, at least.It never works out, and she's heartbroken about it for, oh, about anhour and a half."With a laugh, Kayleen lifted her head again."That's not fair, of course, but shemanages to shake it all off and never lose her optimism about love.She forgetsto pay her bills, misses appointments, never knows the correct time, and hasnever been known to be able to find her keys.She's wonderful.""You love her very much.""Yes, very much." Sighing now, Kayleen pillowed her head on Flynn'sshoulder."I decided when I was very young that it was my job to take care ofher.That was after her husband number two."He combed his fingers through her flower-bedecked hair."Did you lose yourfather?""No, but you could say he lost us.He left us when I was six.I suppose youcould call him frivolous, too, which was yet another motivation for me to beanything but.He never settled into the family business well.Or into marriage,or into fatherhood.I hardly remember him."He stroked her hair, said nothing.But he was beginning to worry."Were youhappy, in that life?""I wasn't unhappy.Brennan's was important to me, maybe all the more sobecause it wasn't important to my father.He shrugged off the tradition of it, theresponsibility of it, as carelessly as he shrugged off his wife and his daughter.""And hurt you.""At first.Then I stopped letting it hurt me."Did you? Flynn wondered.Or is that just one more pretense?"I thought everything had to be done a certain way to be done right.If you dothings right, people don't leave," she said softly."And you'll know exactlywhat's going to happen next.My uncle and grandfather gradually let me takeover the business because I had a knack for it, and they were proud of that.Mymother let me handle things at home because, well, she's just too good-naturednot to."She sighed again, snuggled into him."She's going to get married again nextmonth, and she's thrilled.One of the reasons I took this trip now is because Iwanted to get away from it, from those endless plans for yet another of herhappy endings.I suppose I hurt her feelings, leaving the way I did.But I'd havehurt them more if I'd stayed and spoke my mind.""You don't like the man she'll marry?""No, he's perfectly nice.My mother's fianc�s are always perfectly nice.Funny,since I've been here I haven't worried about her at all.And I imagine, somehow,she's managing just fine without me picking at her.The shop's undoubtedlyrunning like clockwork, and the world continues to spin.Odd to realize I wasn'tindispensable after all.""To me you are." He wrapped his arms around her, rolled over so he could lookdown at her."You're vital to me.""That's the most wonderful thing anyone's ever said to me." It was better, wasn'tit? she asked herself.Even better than "I love you.""I don't know what time it is, or even what day.I don't need to know [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]

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