The Ocean Between Us
“It was easy to match her breathing with his, and somehow it relaxed her and made her feel even closer to him. Morning sunshine streamed through the parted curtains. On the deck outside, Ranger, the stray who’d stayed, prowled back and forth, home from his nightly wanderings.
Lauren studied the clothes heaped on the arm of a nearby chair, his flight jacket covering her yellow cotton sweater, his boots towering over her sling-back sandals. His squadron cap hung on one of the posters of her bed. H...e was moving into her life in every sense of the word, and she wasn’t lifting a finger to stop him.
After being in the deep freeze of grief since Gil died, she had thawed out and learned to laugh again, learned to grasp life in both hands and pull herself into feelings she’d abandoned long ago—joy, passion and deep contentment. She knew she was breaking every rule in her own book because of Josh, but she’d lived without passion long enough. The lack of deep feeling was carving out a hollow ache inside her.MoreLess
Lauren studied the clothes heaped on the arm of a nearby chair, his flight jacket covering her yellow cotton sweater, his boots towering over her sling-back sandals. His squadron cap hung on one of the posters of her bed. H...e was moving into her life in every sense of the word, and she wasn’t lifting a finger to stop him.
After being in the deep freeze of grief since Gil died, she had thawed out and learned to laugh again, learned to grasp life in both hands and pull herself into feelings she’d abandoned long ago—joy, passion and deep contentment. She knew she was breaking every rule in her own book because of Josh, but she’d lived without passion long enough. The lack of deep feeling was carving out a hollow ache inside her.MoreLess
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