A Wild Surrender by Anne Mather

Author:Anne Mather
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2012-03-26T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER NINE

TO BEGIN with, Rachel enjoyed the outing.

It was so good to be with people who knew nothing about her. Who accepted her story that she’d planned to come on holiday with a girlfriend, but the friend had been taken ill at the last moment and been unable to come.

And Mark and Lucy were a nice couple. Mark did most of the talking, but Lucy seemed not to mind. A placid girl, with long dark hair and pretty features, she seemed quite content to leave everything to him.

It was only when her husband went to talk to the skipper of the vessel that she confided to Rachel that they were on their honeymoon. She became quite animated when she described the elaborate wedding dress she’d worn.

They anchored off a small cove, and most of the young people on board dived into the water and swam to the beach. The older members of the party were ferried ashore in a dinghy. Then time was allotted for swimming and snorkelling before a picnic lunch was served.

The food wasn’t great, but the scenery was spectacular. In any case, Rachel wasn’t hungry. Despite her determination to leave her problems behind her, she couldn’t help thinking about her father. What was she going to tell him the next time she called?

Chewing on a skewer of jerk chicken and pimento, she wondered what Matt was doing today. Probably making up with her mother, she mused ruefully. She hoped he wouldn’t bring Sara to the hotel.

So far, they hadn’t actually discussed his association with her mother. She would find it hard—no, make that impossible—to bring the subject up. How could she ask him his intentions towards the other woman when she herself was in such an impossible situation?

They sailed back into the harbour soon after three o’clock. It was later than Rachel had expected, and she could feel her skin prickling with the heat. She had taken precautions, covering her arms and legs with sunscreen as soon as she came out of the water, staying under the parasols the ferry company had provided while she ate her lunch. But the sun was relentless.

Still, it had been a nice day. It had kept her away from the hotel for over six hours and that was good.

It was only as they were driving back to the hotel that Rachel was forced to review her opinion of Mark Douglas. He’d hired a buggy for the duration of their stay on the island, and it was this they’d used that morning to get down to the quay.

Rachel had been seated in the back, of course, but on the return journey Lucy had insisted that she should take the front seat beside Mark.

‘It’s only fair,’ she said easily. ‘I’m quite happy to sit in the back.’

Rachel would have been quite happy to sit in the back, too. But it would have been churlish to refuse the young woman’s offer.

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