Dandelion by Merlina Garance EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Merlina Garance
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- Genre: contemporary romance
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Houston, May 1973
The conference had started early in the morning. Enough that by now, at
seven pm, Bill was starting to feel drowsy despite the amount of coffee he’d
gulped down all day. Not that it hadn’t been interesting. The effects of
second-hand smoking and possible effects on pregnancies. Bill had been in
it more for the oncology aspects of the research, but the place was also
brimming with pulmonologists and obstetricians.
He left the amphitheater with a burning sensation behind his eyeballs,
uselessly pulling his glasses down to rub at his eyes. He had an inkling that
fifty-three was too old to be sitting in a room, looking at projections on a
white screen for seven hours, without feeling slightly hungover after.
Thankfully, the lobby of the hotel he was staying at for the duration of
the conference wasn’t so brightly lit, and the soft burgundy carpet lining the
floor at least dulled the sound of conversations a little. He was making his
way to the front desk to ask for his key back when something in his
peripheral vision caught his attention.
A silhouette that shouldn’t have been so familiar.
Except, really, when in his life would he have not recognized him?
Slender without being skinny. Short, hazel waves slightly falling on his
forehead, reading glasses that hadn’t been there the last time, perched on his
aquiline nose. He also hadn’t sported that hideous mustache when Bill last
saw him, oh… two decades ago.
His heart was beating too fast already, limbs frozen with the dilemma
of what to do next. Say hello? And then what, after how they parted ways
last time, with barely a last look and no words of comfort? Or walk away
before it was too late?
In the end, he dithered for too long and fate took the reins for him.
The other man, slightly taller than him, turned around from where he
was leaning in to talk to the receptionist, and his eyes immediately fell on
Bill. Shock painted itself on his features, eyes wide and lips slightly parted
as he took Bill in. They were both wearing formal suits, sweating under
their blazers and stifled by the ties that were mandatory for such an event.
Finally, a small smile spread the other man’s lips and he said, voice
soft with wonder:
“William Mercer.”
Hearing his full name in the man’s voice made Bill’s heart skip a beat,
something that he would have to contemplate in the loneliness of his hotel
room, later.
“Robert Ulysses Bachelor,” he said in turn.
A few seconds went by, then both men broke into a smile. As if the last
twenty years hadn’t happened.
His companion’s eyes crinkled with mirth.
“Bill,” he corrected himself.
Bill’s heart soared when he finally allowed himself to say:
“Bobby.”
Neither of them had moved an inch since they noticed each other.
Bobby’s hands were clenched on top of the reception counter, and Bill’s
own were tightly holding onto his suitcase’s handle.
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