White Midnight

the long version

How could she afford to welcome him home? — Amanda had been dangerously naive the summer Drake Daniels raked in a cool ten thousand dollars for leaving her family's Georgia estate and disappearing into the night without her. His betrayal had nearly killed her. — For six long years she'd fantasized about confronting him -- to tell him exactly what she thought of him. But face-to-face her accusations were powerless. The sad truth was, her secret fantasies always ended the same impossible way -- with her beating her fists on his hard chest and him holding her tightly, explaining, soothing away the anguish of the horrible years..