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128 DANCING IN THE MOONLIGHT
“I believe I’ll continue to muddle through.”
“So why don’t you have one?”
“A wife or a housekeeper?”
She took a sip of wine. “A wife. You’re probably
prime meat on the Pine Gulch dating scene. I mean, the
Dalton good-looks gene obviously didn’t pass you by.
And judging by the way you kiss, at least, you’re quite
comfortable with your heterosexuality. You’re wealthy,
successful and a doctor, for heaven’s sake. You should
have women out the eyeballs. So what the heck is
wrong with you?”
He laughed out loud. “Do you practice being insulting
or does it just come naturally when you’re with me?”
“It’s a gift. So why aren’t you attached, Dr. Dalton?”
“Maybe I’m too picky.”
And maybe the one woman he compared all others
to was a heartbreakingly beautiful wounded soldier who
wanted nothing to do with him.
“Any near misses?”
“In the relationship department?A few. I was engaged
a few years ago, right after I finished my residency.”
“What happened? She dump you?”
“It was a mutual decision, if you must know. Sad,
really. Our lives were heading on different tracks, and
neither of us seemed willing to shift direction to accommodate
the other. Carla was a lawyer and she couldn’t
bear the idea of moving to Podunk, Idaho, and I couldn’t
imagine practicing anywhere else. It was a mistake from
the beginning, I guess.”
“Knowing that doesn’t make it hurt less, does it?”
He thought about the sense of guilt and failure he’d