The whole Scene:
I knew Frank hadn’t been celibate since my disappearance. In his late forties, he was still lean and muscular, dark and sleek, a very handsome man. Women clustered about him at cocktail parties like bees round a honeypot, emitting small hums of sexual excitement.
There had been one girl with brown hair whom I had noticed particularly at the departmental party; she stood in the corner and stared at Frank mournfully over her drink. Later she became tearfully and incoherently drunk, and was escorted home by two female friends, who took turns casting evil looks at Frank and at me, standing by his side, silently bulging in my flowered maternity dress.
He’d been discreet, though. He was always home at night, and took pains not to have lipstick on his collar. So, now he meant to come home all the way. I supposed he had some right to expect it; was that not a wifely duty, and I once more his wife?
There was only one small problem. It wasn’t Frank I reached for, deep in the night, waking out of sleep. It wasn’t his smooth, lithe body that walked my dreams and roused me, so that I came awake moist and gasping, my heart pounding from the half-remembered touch. But I would never touch that man again.“Jamie,” I whispered, “Oh, Jamie.” My tears sparkled in the morning light, adorning Brianna’s soft red fuzz like scattered pearls and diamonds.
Both suffer so much during their separation..Jamies Pain
This just breaks my heart every time I read it!
Hi Patricia,
mine too.Both suffer soo much..Thanks for your Comment and your visit 🙂 LG Heike Ginger
Visual image accompanying the words make the scene more heart-wrenching. I dread being able to watch the ending of DIA in Season 2 next year. I know it’s going to tear out my heart and stomp on it really hard. Then I imagine, if we’re lucky, we have to wait out Droughtlander III before we can continue to watch Voyager. OL is going to be the death of me.
Hi Betty,
the sad Moments at the End from DiA will break my Heart..but thereare so many wonderful Moments after that. LG Heike Ginger
Both of the postings about Claire and Jamie’s pain were so touching! Thank you for bringing them back to me again!
Hi Norma,
thank you again for your kind words. The writing of Herself always touch my heart… LG Heike Ginger