A Summer to Remember by Sue Moorcroft

Author:Sue Moorcroft [Moorcroft, Sue]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollinsPublishers
Published: 2019-04-01T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

On Friday morning, Clancy stowed her luggage in her car and settled down in the hotel coffee shop to meet Harry and Rory. As she had a few minutes to spare, she ordered a tall latte and hooked her laptop up to the Wi-Fi. Overnight an email had arrived from her parents.

It began without preamble. We’ve been asked to stay another six months to a year to work on other infrastructure projects but don’t know what to do. As we’d had everything set up for a September flight back for your wedding we left that in place, worried about you being alone to sort out the mess that little shit dropped you into. How’s that going? We can come home if you’d like it. Let us know ASAP.

Or why don’t you come out here for a while? It’s such a worthwhile project. We can’t picture you in Nelson’s Bar for long! What on earth do you do all day?

Mum and Dad

xxxx

Though her father’s name appeared at the foot of the email, Clancy detected only the maternal voice. She could picture her mother typing furiously in the office in Namibia Clancy had only seen in photos.

As Harry and Rory hadn’t appeared, she sent the reply she was pretty sure they were hoping for.

There’s no need to return. Now the shock’s worn off I realise marrying Will would have been a mistake. She gave them the gist of the financial unknotting she’d been busy with this week. I love Nelson’s Bar, she went on, as she sipped her latte before it cooled, and if that changes I’ll move on. She definitely didn’t feel that way yet though.

She moved on to another email and it was only when she finished working through her inbox that she glanced at the clock on her computer and realised with an unpleasant jolt that it was eleven-thirty and Harry and Rory were now an hour late. Her stomach sank as she reached for her phone to call Rory.

It went to voicemail.

Should she ring Will? She hesitated. Will would, presumably, be at work, and she found she wasn’t super-keen to warn him that the lads she’d ‘hoped’ would be in his spare room only until this morning might have unofficially extended their visit.

Just as she was concluding unhappily that she’d have to contact Aaron to report losing his cousin and ask for advice, relief flooded through her as she caught sight of Harry and Rory ambling across the hotel foyer. Each wore rumpled clothes, dazed expressions and, Clancy was able to verify when they dropped into the seats across from hers, a strong aroma of stale alcohol. They did, however, have their backpacks.

‘Sorry,’ Harry said, offering Clancy a goofy smile. ‘We’re pissed.’

‘Oh.’ Clancy studied their red eyes and loose movements. ‘That’s quite a feat in London when you have no money.’

Harry and Rory burst out laughing, leaning against one another in their mirth. ‘It’s all gone,’ Harry crowed.

‘Fantastic,’ she muttered, and bought them hot buttered toast to

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