Tag: relationship
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Nowhere Lane – Chapter Four. A Game of Hearts.
Karen Eversley kept her word. Patrick discovered her occupying a window seat in the lounge bar of The Hunters, staring moodily into a glass of something short. When she saw him, her features tightened in a slow smile that her eyes failed to imitate. “I thought you weren’t coming.” She chided him lightly. Patrick…
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A Place that was Ours. Chapter Nineteen – Moments From the Grown-up Years
I recall the afternoon so well. Angie and I were both at home, for once, when the telephone rang. It was a call – no, it was the call I had been expecting. I remember Angie’s face as she watched me answer it, set and serious, those intense eyes of hers giving her message of…
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A Place that was Ours. Chapter Fourteen – A fractured Dream.
On the street the temperature was dropping, and clouds from the east were threatening snow. I hurried home, mindful of my mother’s words and the conversation that was beginning in my head. Was she right? Was it possible a girl with whom I once spent twenty minutes of inexpert passion on a river bank…