Separate Beds

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by LaVyrle Spencer


  “But I was so scared. What if you didn't feel the same way about me? I'd have been shattered.”

  “Yet every time I made advances I felt like you couldn't stand me.”

  “Clay, I told you that first night that my dad made me come to your house—marriage had to be for love only. Please, let's always be this way, like we are tonight. Let's be good to each other and promise all those things that we never really promised in that trumped-up marriage ceremony.”

  Lying naked, with their limbs entwined, secure in each other's love, they sealed those vows at last.

  “I promise them, Cat.”

  “I do, too, Clay.”

  On Christmas morning Melissa woke them up, babbling and thumping her heels on the crib. Clay came awake groggily, stretched and felt bare skin on the other side of the bed. He turned to study the woman who lay on her stomach, sleeping beneath a swirl of blond hair.

  He started to creep from bed noiselessly.

  “Where you going?” came a voice from under the hair.

  “To get Melissa and bring her in with us, okay?”

  “Okay, but don't be gone long, huh?”

  They came back together, the one in aqua-blue footed pajamas, the other one in nothing. When Catherine rolled over, Clay plopped Melissa down beside her, then got in too.

  “Hi, Lissy-girl. Got a kiss for Mommy?”

  Melissa leaned over and sucked her mother's chin, her version of a kiss.

  Clay watched with a glad expression on his face.

  Catherine looked at his tousled blond hair, his smiling gray eyes and asked, “Hi, Clay-boy, got a kiss for Mommy?”

  “More than one,” he said, smiling. “This is one child who's going to learn early the value of touching.”

  He leaned across the baby then, to give his wife what she wanted.

  Table of Contents

  Chapter 1

  Chapter 2

  Chapter 3

  Chapter 4

  Chapter 5

  Chapter 6

  Chapter 7

  Chapter 8

  Chapter 9

  Chapter 10

  Chapter 11

  Chapter 12

  Chapter 13

  Chapter 14

  Chapter 15

  Chapter 16

  Chapter 17

  Chapter 18

  Chapter 19

  Chapter 20

  Chapter 21

  Chapter 22

  Chapter 23

  Chapter 24

  Chapter 25

  Chapter 26

  Chapter 27

  Chapter 28

  Chapter 29

  Chapter 30

  Chapter 31

 

 

 


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