Chapter 1
Linda’s solicitor had phoned the Tuesday afternoon, telling Linda to meet him in his L.A. office at 10.30am the next morning. Now she was walking out his office a check in her hand, the feeling of joy, happiness & peace coming back into her life. No matter which way she tried to think about it, Linda was sure she had done the best thing for herself and sadly her ex-husband.
When she first met him, the two thought they would manage, he had a great job she worked and for the first year it all seemed to work. Linda had been “shattered” when it had came crashing down around her. And when her problems got too much for her, there was only one person she could turn to her brother, Grant back home in Australia.
Linda phoned him as she drove away from her Solicitors office.
Grant listened quietly and with sympathy to his sister’s knowing, the relationship had been doomed from the very beginning. Inviting her to come and stay in his apartment in Sydney. Linda accepted the invitation immediately, she had only been there as a child and could barley remember anything about it except driving over the Sydney Harbor Bridge and seeing the Opera House on a distant point.
And there is nothing like a brother who can provide a free bed when a girl needs one!
Chapter 2
Linda had not seen her brother in almost 3 years since she shifted to L.A. and was surprised, at his youthful appearance at the airport gate. He had not aged at all; Linda jumped into his arms with all the energy of her 24 years. The two embraced with the same closeness of any Married couple, their lips touching for a moment longer than any sibling might dare. Grant gently placed his sister gently back on her tiny feet, before picked up her suitcase and fighting their way through the Airport chaos.
Grant keen to hear all of his young sisters divorce problems and her plans for her new life as they drove, through Sydney’s busy streets. At last reaching his unit on Sydney’s North shore. Linda stunned as they entered his Penthouse unit on the 18th floor over looking a Beautiful Sydney Harbor & City.
He didn’t have time to empty the spare room of all the junk, he had accumulate over his years of living in Sydney, until the next weekend.
Grant said, “Linda could sleep on the lounge for her first few nights.”
Linda, quickly suggested, “She could easily share her big brothers bed. After all we have slept together on many occasions in our youth and what would it hurt if we slept together now.”
Grant agreed, but striking the deal ‘That because Linda was the guest, she should be the one to make the bed in the mornings.’
It was still early and Grant had to work and dressed while telling Linda of where she could spend her first day as a Sydney Tourist. Linda quickly, assured him she had some very important sleep to catch up on first. She would be spending her first day back home sleeping off a well-earned jet lag.
Grant said, “He would take her out for Dinner, for her fist night back in Australia.”