A Cosy Candlelit Christmas: A wonderfully festive feel good romance (An Unforgettable Christmas Book 2) by Tilly Tennant

Author:Tilly Tennant [Tennant, Tilly]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781786812162
Publisher: Bookouture
Published: 2017-10-26T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWELVE

Isla paced the room as she waited for her mum to pick up the phone. She didn’t even know what she was going to say to her. Above all else, she was angry with herself for letting Justin get to her – both with his jibes and with his damn sexual magnetism. She didn’t need that jumped-up little shit to tell her what sort of woman her mother was, but that didn’t mean she couldn’t love her just the same. Glory was difficult and stubborn and prone to passionate outbursts, fierce in love and even fiercer when you crossed her. But what if all the years of her demonising Isla’s father had coloured her view? What if, far from being the perpetrator of the hurt, he’d been a genuine victim of it? What if he really hadn’t been the bad guy? Her mother had blamed her father for just about everything that had ever gone wrong in their lives, but was that fair? Who was Isla supposed to believe? She couldn’t believe her mother was the villain of the piece, even if she now doubted her father’s guilt. Marriages ended all the time and sometimes it was just nobody’s fault. Isla wanted to believe that of her parents’ marriage. Right now, she didn’t know what to think.

‘Finally she decides to phone me,’ Glory said in prim tones as she answered. ‘I’d almost forgotten I had a daughter. I suppose you’re having such a wonderful time with him that you’d almost forgotten you had a mother.’

‘It’s been a bit busy. I’ve been out and about, taking in the scenery, you know… I probably won’t ever get the chance to come back here. And the phone signal has been pretty bad,’ she added. Not quite the truth but easier than admitting that she just hadn’t felt like talking to her.

‘They don’t have landlines in France?’

‘I suppose so, I just never seem to catch the hotel owner to ask.’

Glory gave a sharp click of her tongue. ‘So, you’re coming home tomorrow?’

‘The day after.’

‘Your aunts have arrived for Christmas with your cousins. They’re helping me to get the house ready.’

A deliberate dig designed to make Isla feel guilty for not being there. She wouldn’t rise to it, not when so much else needed her attention. ‘That’s nice. It’ll be good to catch up with them when I get home.’

Silent tears began as she sat on the bed. Why did life have to be so complicated? Why did she have to feel so disloyal for giving her father a chance? Why couldn’t she have normal parents like other people had? Covering the phone, she sniffed hard and dried her tears.

‘Are you OK, though, Mum?’ she asked in a gap between sobs.

‘I’m always OK,’ Glory said. ‘I’ve always had to be.’ There was a pause. ‘What’s his new wife like?’

‘Ian’s? She seems nice enough. She’s hardly new, though, they have two grown-up kids.’

‘You know what I mean. Have you seen a lot of them?’

‘Not particularly,’ Isla said, which was the truth.

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