A Little Revenge Omnibus by Penny Jordan

Author:Penny Jordan [Jordan, Penny]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2011-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

EPILOGUE

‘TRY NOT TO feel too bad that things didn’t work out,’ Anna tried to console Dee gently. ‘We may not have been able to reveal Julian in his true colours, but at least Beth seems to be getting over him. She never mentioned him once the last time she rang me, and in fact she seemed far more concerned about the problems this interpreter’s causing her than her broken engagement. And just think, if it hadn’t been for you, Kelly and Brough might never have met...’

Dee gave her a rueful look.

They were sitting in the pretty conservatory at the back of Anna’s house, Anna’s cat purring loudly on her knee whilst her little dog begged hopefully for crumbs of the home-made biscuit Dee was eating.

‘I wish I could be more like you, Anna,’ Dee told her in a rare admission of self-criticism. ‘You have such a peaceful acceptance of life...’

‘Maybe now,’ Anna agreed with her gentle smile, ‘but not always. When I first lost Ralph, my husband...’ She paused and shook her head. ‘But that’s all in the past now.’ She looked thoughtfully at Dee before continuing quietly, ‘Have you ever thought, Dee, that it might be time for you to put Julian and whatever...?’ She stopped and bit her lip as she saw the storm clouds beginning to darken Dee’s magnificent eyes.

‘No. Never. There’s no way I can put Julian in the past until—’

Abruptly Dee stopped. Close though she had become to both Kelly and Anna these last few weeks, there were still some things she just couldn’t bring herself to discuss with them, some confidences she couldn’t even make to gentle, understanding Anna.

‘It isn’t over yet,’ she said fiercely instead, reminding Anna, ‘At least he’s taking the bait in our trap.’

Their trap? Wisely Anna said nothing. Something that went far, far deeper into Dee’s past than her relatively recent friendship with her own goddaughter, Beth, was motivating Dee in her need to see Julian get his just deserts.

‘Julian’s already made overtures to you, hinting that he could put you in the way of a highly profitable investment opportunity, hasn’t he?’

‘Yes, he has,’ Anna agreed.

‘Excellent. We’ll get him yet, and when we do...’

‘When we do, what?’ Anna pressed her gently.

Dee turned to her, her eyes bleak with an anguished pain that touched Anna’s tender heart as she told her grimly, ‘When we do, we’ll expose him for the liar and the cheat that he is! The liar, the cheat and the murderer,’ Dee emphasised.

The murderer? Anna was too shocked to say anything, and Dee was already getting up, pausing only to give the waiting dog the titbit she had saved for him before turning to hug Anna and tell her, ‘I’ll be in touch. There are a few arrangements I need to make to ensure that you’ll have sufficient cash available to properly tempt Julian. I think probably that fifty thousand pounds should do it...’

‘Fifty thousand pounds!’ Anna gasped in protest. ‘Oh, Dee, so much. But...’

‘It’s nothing,’ Dee told her quietly.

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