They had been like this for three tense minutes now, D sitting on her bed, flipping through the magazine and Sarah stretched out on the other bed, her eyes closed. No one had said a word. Sarah was caught in a fierce internal struggle. On one side there was Joe’s orders for her not to talk to D ab
“Yeah, what was I thinking, right?” she finally said, and there was a real bitterness in her voice. “I must have totally lost my mind there! The stupidest thing I’ve ever done. I agree….” “That’s not what I meant,” Sarah said with some exasperation. “I was just surprised, because I really thought y
She must have nodded off after D had left. When there was a knock on the door, it took Sarah a moment to wake up. Still drowsy, she rose from the bed and stumbled over to the door. D must have forgotten her key. She opened the door – and found herself looking right into her brothers’ eyes. “Joe?
Not paying much attention to any of that, Joe left the sun-flooded lounge area through the sliding glass doors. Outside, he walked between the many lawn chairs and towels that were spread out on the grass. People were dozing; getting a sunburn; playing cards; chatting; cuddling… He took the stairs
Swimming with strong, regular strokes, D slowly ploughed through the water, glad that she had made it away from the area with the boats and all the other swimmers and the screaming kids. She had almost reached the tip of the peninsula with the flagpole that she had seen on her way through the spa a
The sudden creaking of wooden planks and the whole pier starting to slightly swing under somebody’s footsteps made her click her jaws in irritation. It was really annoying how, the very minute she had started to relax a bit here, some stupid swimmer or walker or fisherman or whatever had to jump ou
D’s look turned from cold to deadly. “If you think you can mock me here…” “I’m not mocking you, Jesus Christ!” “Go to hell!” “Well, yeah… maybe I’ll do that later,” he said, realizing too late that now he was really mocking her. Sucking in a sharp breath, she raised her free hand out of the wate
“I actually thought I had made that pretty clear,” he said, not letting her out of his sight. “Why I came back, I mean... But if you need some additional clarification, it’s been the best thing I’ve done in ages. So there!” He could see her swallow. Then she shook her head and finally raised her ey