The Sometime Bride
“In the next three years Don Alexis Perez de Leon came home just seven times. Four times as Blas, a lover so ardent Cat felt it was more a quirk of fate than the old woman’s instruction which kept her from increasing. On three occasions the man who returned from Spain was the world-weary young man who wore Don Alejo’s face, but wiggled into the slithery persona of a superficial Spanish don only during the hours he spent in the gaming rooms. The remainder of the time, when he shared the family po...rtion of the Casa Audley with Cat, he was the steady, usually gentle big brother whose inner anguish had revealed itself only once—the night he pounded his dresser top, swearing, “Damn him, damn him, damn him!”
Each time he came home, it took only one swift glance for Cat to know which personality had returned to her. Would it always be like this? she wondered. Was she destined to live with these inexplicable contrasting moods for the rest of her life?
It was months before she noticed one other odd quirk in her husband’s behavior.MoreLess
Each time he came home, it took only one swift glance for Cat to know which personality had returned to her. Would it always be like this? she wondered. Was she destined to live with these inexplicable contrasting moods for the rest of her life?
It was months before she noticed one other odd quirk in her husband’s behavior.MoreLess
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