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An Ellora’s Cave Romantica Publication

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Promise for Now

ISBN 9781419915086

Edited by Pamela Campbell.

Cover art by Syneca.

Electronic book Publication April 2008

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is purely coincidental. The characters are productions of the author’s imagination and used fictitiously.

PROMISE FOR NOW

Diana Hunter

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Chapter One

“Well, there. Now it’s final and he’s out of the house. Good riddance!”

“Susan, stop it. Mike and I had twenty-five good years. He was—is—still a good

man.” Carol Iderman pulled her SUV into Susan’s driveway, suddenly desperate to get

rid of her best friend. Her head pounded and she wondered just why she had felt the

need for someone to go with her to the lawyer’s office to sign the divorce papers. Susan

wanted to celebrate and all Carol wanted to do was go crawl under a rock and cry. “We

just married too young. And with Mike Jr. and Alexa both out of college and on their

own now…well, it’s better this way.”

“Yeah, put a good face on it for everyone else, woman. Not for me. I know all the

gory details, remember? The cheating, the arguments? Personally? I’m thrilled you

finally wised up. You spent the best years of your life with that lying cheat.” Susan

opened the passenger door and got out, getting in one last comment before she shut the

door and righteously stalked into her expensive suburban home. “Stop looking at the

past through rose-colored glasses, Carol or you’ll make the same mistakes again.”

Carol watched Susan’s exit, keeping a stranglehold on her emotions. She put the

SUV into reverse, drove to the other side of the suburban development and pulled into

her own garage. The overhead door whirred and clicked, descending behind her. Still

gritting her teeth, she dismounted from the huge car that Mike had talked her into

when all she had wanted was a small runabout. He claimed the vehicle would be far

safer for her on the highways and never mind the money—they had enough. For Carol,

it wasn’t about the money—it was the size of the darn thing. While she wasn’t tiny by

any means, the SUV still wasn’t easy for her to manage. She had perfected a little twist-

hop that allowed her to get down fairly gracefully and it irked her every time she had to

do it.

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