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Une fois le soleil couché à Virgin River, il n’y avait guère de distractions pour Sean Riordan, à part rester devant la cheminée chez son frère Luke. Mais se détendre dans le calme devant une bonne flambée, tandis que Luke et Shelby, sa femme depuis peu, se susurraient des mots doux, blottis l’un contre l’autre, était une sorte de torture dont il pouvait se passer. Parfois, ils feignaient d’être fatigués afin de pouvoir s’esquiver dans leur chambre à huit heures du soir. Plus souvent qu’à son tour, Sean leur facilitait la vie : il se rendait en ville sur la côte où il faisait un peu de tourisme et de shopping, avec peut-être aussi un peu l’espoir d’une rencontre féminine.
Afficher en entierOnce the sun went down in Virgin River there wasn’t a whole lot of entertainment for Sean Riordan, unless he wanted to sit by the fire at his brother Luke’s house. But sitting all quiet and cozy while Luke and his new wife, Shelby, snuggled and said sweet little things to each other was a special kind of torment he could do without. Sometimes they just faked being tired so they could slip off to bed at eight o’clock at night. More often than not Sean just made it easy on them—he’d head over to a larger town on the coast where he could enjoy the sights and do a little window-shopping, maybe meet a woman of his own.
Sean was a U-2 pilot stationed at Beale Air Force Base in Northern California, a few hours south of Virgin River. He had accumulated a ton of vacation and could only carry over ninety days to the next fiscal year, so he had a couple of months to kill. His brother had just gotten married and Sean had been his best man. After the wedding, Sean decided to stay on in Virgin River and use up some of his leave. Given the fact that Luke and Shelby had been together about a year, Sean didn’t feel as if he was interfering with the honeymoon by hanging around. All that loveydovey stuff was not so much about them sealing the deal, as it was about them still being hot to trot, as if they’d just met.
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