(MSRP: 0.9900)
Ellen is running late to catch a train to catch a plane. But as she packs, she wonders if she's doing the right thing. Harry is there at the airport, waiting for her. She also knows he's waiting for much more. He's hoping this holiday together will cement their relationship. Does she want it to? Does she need it? Can she start another chapter of her life, which includes a man again?
Rosette
(9 pages) Sweet
Excerpt:
Amongst all the other travelers, I stood on the noisy, crowded platform for the 10:20 am train. The garbled voice of the announcer said something that might as well have been spoken in Hindu, for all the sense I could make of it through the crackling speaker.
Perhaps I should ring Sara again or my mother and say good-bye once more. Three weeks away is a long time, after all.
Mother thought I was crazy to go all the way to London with someone I'd only known a few months. She said the world had gone mad and no one courted properly anymore. I actually have the same opinion for the most part, yet Harry had tried to court me properly--when I let him. He wanted to wine and dine me, take me to the theatre and for drives in the country and I had agreed to some of it, but ... but I was frightened...
I had loved a man once, my husband, Sara's father. He had been the man of my dreams, the one I loved above all others. Then after ten wonderful years, he went. Gone. In one freak accident I was left a widow with a young child. All my love went with him.
Now, thirteen years later, I was being asked to feel things again--emotions that had been dead and buried with my husband. Truthfully, I didn't know if I was capable of being a lover, a partner once more.
