B&C III - 17

Brian and Christine
Book Three
Saint Jane's
Part 17

For now Brian felt encouraged and a little bit relieved. Saint Jane’s was such an unpleasant experience for him when he was there that he didn’t really want to go back and both Wong and Bloom were interested enough in the dilemma about Christy that he felt things were progressing well.

Brain was thinking about Wendy and was looking forward very much to seeing her on the weekend. He was puzzled with himself Why after all these years he even contemplated getting married again was a mystery to him. And then to actually go ahead and propose surprised him. It seems that it surprised him more than it did Wendy. But he did it, and she accepted, so it was going to happen. He again wished very much that Christy could be there when they actually tied the knot. Getting Christy back into his life was now becoming an obsession. He plainly could not think of his life without her. The child he never had, the family he never had. It was finally within reach after all these years. He gladdened himself by thinking of the possibilities. But the difficulty of attaining them kept creeping up from his gut and caused him a lot of pain. From the crash of the plane, to the hard trudge through the wilderness, to carrying her to safety, to being with her as a protector, father and friend through those days in Buffalo Gap it was hard to believe that all that tillage and planting would not reap the joys of companionship and love. He wanted to go to Saint Jane’s, break down doors, grab her and take her away, but he felt powerless to do anything, like a fish on the beach next to the shore line who couldn’t squirm enough to get back into the water.

His only hope besides the wisdom and warm support of Wendy was that Tom Wong and Myron Bloom wouldn't lose interest in the problem and would follow it through to whatever complicated end would be the result.

Brian didn’t realize it at the time but there was a third, shadowy figure who was also interested in the case. They would soon meet. Again.



(To be continued.)