Rain Check Checkmate Joanni put down the plate and glass on the coffee table, that much she knew to do. The next step she was less certain of—wake him up or let him sleep? He looked so peaceful, she didn’t have the heart to rouse him, and there was an intimacy being there with him while he was disarmed, as it were, of his will and duty. She thought back on her travels with Jackie, how he often slept beside her, exhausted, as they traveled from gig to gig, though that was different. They were attracted to each other, she and Jackie, but there was not any foundation for love between them. Joanni sat down on the opposite side of the couch and pulled up her legs, hugging them as she rested her chin on her knees and watched her captain sleep. ‘We are on the same path; we are searching for the same things,’ she thought. ‘Must we do so separately? We could do it together; would you want that?’
Chapter 16. Rain Check Checkmate
Chapter 16. Rain Check Checkmate
Chapter 16. Rain Check Checkmate
Rain Check Checkmate Joanni put down the plate and glass on the coffee table, that much she knew to do. The next step she was less certain of—wake him up or let him sleep? He looked so peaceful, she didn’t have the heart to rouse him, and there was an intimacy being there with him while he was disarmed, as it were, of his will and duty. She thought back on her travels with Jackie, how he often slept beside her, exhausted, as they traveled from gig to gig, though that was different. They were attracted to each other, she and Jackie, but there was not any foundation for love between them. Joanni sat down on the opposite side of the couch and pulled up her legs, hugging them as she rested her chin on her knees and watched her captain sleep. ‘We are on the same path; we are searching for the same things,’ she thought. ‘Must we do so separately? We could do it together; would you want that?’