“I’m sorry, honey,” Jane’s mother told her when they’d gotten back to the cottage, sitting on the edge of Jane’s bed and stroking her arm, careful not to disturb the heavily bandaged foot on its nest of pillows, while Jane’s father looked on. “I guess this won’t be much of a vacation for you. We’d take you right back home but I still need a few days to finish my research.”
“I’ll be here if you need anything,” her father added. Porn vedio She thought about going away and finding someplace to sit down for a while, but put that thought aside. If she had to wait for Peter she wanted to be able to look at him. She watched him lead the woman he’d gotten the book for up to the register, nod politely and turn back to wait on someone else. For the next half-hour she played hide-and-seek, moving around the store as if she were browsing, but always keeping one or more of the free-standing bookshelves on the floor between her and Peter and ducking down if he turned in her direction. And as it got nearer to closing time she began maneuvering to keep out of Mr. She’d jumped from her car then and hurried through the alley between the store and the building next to it, stopping at the end
