Rainbow Snippets: Another Chance for Love

As my post-WW1 novella, Another Chance for Love is one of four titles in the QueeRomanceInk giveaway pack for October I thought it was timely to include a snippet from that story. To access all four books for free, just sign up for the QueeRomanceInk email list.

Authors who take part in Rainbow Snippets each weekend are encouraged to post a few lines from one of their stories on their blog and then link back to the group post on Facebook. I always enjoy joining in with Rainbow Snippets, especially to read and comment on everyone else’s choice of snippet.

At the start of Another Chance for Love, my main character Adam Merryweather may have survived his injuries sustained during the war, but due to miscommunication, he has lost touch with the love of his life, Alf. In this snippet, during a conversation with his cousin and confidante, Cat, Adam is mulling over the mess he has made of that situation, especially the fact that due to the machinations of his upwardly mobile mother, he allowed himself to be entangled in a brief socially acceptable wartime engagement.

He had written four or five letters since Alf’s disastrous visit to him in hospital, not that he had been coherent enough to register his presence. That was the occasion when Alf found out that Adam was engaged to be married, just by some casual reference from a nurse. Cat was already at Adam’s bedside when this happened and had raced after Alf, trying to explain the situation as it was in reality. But Alf had abruptly left the building and Adam’s life.

Once Adam had revived sufficiently and Cat had broken the news about the unfortunate turn of events, he had written to Alf at Christmas and then again at Easter, carefully phrasing his letter in the terms of any army pal, rather than something more intimate, in case the letters got into the wrong hands.

He knew his phrasing was awkward and stilted, asking after Alf’s and his parents’ health. He couldn’t say what was in his heart, “I’m a bloody idiot, I should have told you at the very start. Please forgive me. I love you.”

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