Wait for me, Jeff
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Ro: If Wait for me, Jeff... she'd cry out, her little legs trying to catch up with his manly strides.
They'd lost touch over the years but Kate had never forgotten the adolescent she'd loved even as a little child.
Will Jeff recognize her love is now, that of a woman's? Or will she discover that the attachments formed in childhood must remain where they belong...in the past.
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SHORT BLURB Katherine Anderson felt a gentle lurch as the plane began its descent into Darwin Airport and her stomach clutched in a fusion of elation and dread. Within the next fifteen minutes, she’d be face-to-face with a memory that had haunted the past sixteen years of her life. She was about to meet Jeff Hunter again.
EXCERPT.
“Welcome, Kate,” she said and put out her arms. “Sorry, I couldn’t meet you. Did Jeff take good care of you?”
“He certainly did.”
“Good. So, we are to have your delightful company for some time I gather?” Lillian smiled.
“Three months. Nathan’s pilot, Gordon, is taking his wife to her parent's home in Sydney. With two miscarriages, they don't want to run any risks with this baby.”
“Well, I hope it all works out well for you,” Lillian said.
Kate wondered how much Lillian knew of her shattered engagement, or Jeff for that matter. Her eyes strayed to his tall, strapping figure sitting atop the veranda railing. His legs stretched half-way out and his arms crossed over his chest, and watching him, she wished she could creep into the shelter of his male strength, be warm and safe from all the things that had hurt her. His masculinity enchanted her and the clutch in her stomach grew rigid with wanting him. She shifted her gaze, just in case he looked up and caught her staring at him.
While her father had been sceptical of her giving up the security of her well-paid job just to venture out here on speculation, it was her mother who'd understood she needed a break. Her dear mum. She had said this might be the place, not just to kick start her career, but also to find a new love. She wondered if her mother might just be right. No .Not someone new for me Mum, but, Jeff. The boy of her childhood fantasies.
Jeff shoved himself up and off the railing. “Well, Katie Girl,” he said, as though she were still a child. “I must get back to the office.”
Kate’s smile was thin, a little wan. Is that how he still saw her? “Thanks for the ride, Jeff.”
Jeff waved aside her thanks. “Oh, please. It was great to see you again and no doubt, I'll run into you some time.”
Katie Girl? Little Birdie? Run into you some time? Was that all it was going to be? And did that account for the friendly, yet strange aloofness? She felt a pang in her heart at the very thought of it.
“Jeff,” Lillian called. “You are coming to Monegeetha for the surprise party, aren’t you?”
Halfway down the veranda steps, he turned. “I don’t know...”
“It’s your father’s sixtieth, for goodness sake.”
“I realise that.”
“Well, then?”
“Yes...I guess I should,” Jeff called, as he strode down to his vehicle leaving Kate to wonder just what was going on.
They waved Jeff off as he drove away, then Lillian turned. “Hold on a second, Kate,” she said, dashing inside to her lounge room. “I’ll just get the key for your half of the house.” While she was gone Kate’s eyes strayed through the green scattering of trees to the large house next door and when Lillian returned, Kate commented on it.
“That's a lovely place. Big and sprawling with wide encircling verandas...”
Lillian tracked the direction of Kate’s nod. “That’s Jeff’s place,” she said. “You think the outside’s lovely, you should see the inside... the work he’s done is staggering but he hasn’t quite finished it yet.”
Kate’s smile dissolved as her stomach sank sickeningly. Was she really just a stranger to him now? “Jeff’s place? He never said anything...”
“Oh, yes,” Lillian smiled, with pride written all over her face. “He built that when he and Maxine got married.”
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FOUR ANGELS
