Affair in Venice by Rachel Lindsay

Author:Rachel Lindsay [Lindsay, Rachel]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: x
Published: 2010-08-21T03:27:09.187000+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHT

In the morning Filippo was as good as his word. At nine- thirty the clerk at the reception desk rang to say her car was waiting for her whenever she was ready and, because she was unused to having a chauffeur at her disposal, she rushed through her breakfast, reluctant to keep him waiting.

She had mapped out an itinerary for the morning and she handed it to him as she reached the car. He looked at it and then took a sheet of paper from his pocket, explaining to her in broken English that the Conte had already given him instructions where to take her.

Erica glanced at the list. It was similar to her own and she decided it would be rude to ignore the trouble to which Filippo had evidently gone. Putting her own list back in her pocket, she climbed into the car.

Though she enjoyed her tour, all her thoughts were centred on Filippo, and her anxiety to be with him made it hard for her to concentrate on what she was seeing. How could any monument or church, no matter how ancient, stop her from forgetting the fear that was absorbing her?

'I've had enough sightseeing,' she informed the chauffeur. 'Take me to the Conte.'

'Is too hot to look-a-da ole buildings,' the man agreed. 'Much better to sit on terrace and relax in-a-da sunshine.'

Smiling agreement, she was nonetheless shaking with apprehension when she finally went up in the elevator to the penthouse. She was a few moments earlier than she had planned and she hoped he was not still busy or thought she had come here deliberately early in order to check up that he really was working. But when why should he think she wanted to check up on him?

Nerves were making her irrational, proving once again - if she needed proof - that she had allowed Filippo to destroy her logic as he could well destroy her future if he were not going to be a part of it. The knowledge staggered her and blindly she reached out and pressed the stop button, bringing the elevator to a halt. She couldn't go up to the apartment yet. She had to wait and take hold of herself. She must be crazy if she could even think in terms of a future with Filippo. She was as far out of his world as a star; not only in terms of wealth but of nationality and tradition. And these last two would count more with him than anything else. Even if he could for a single moment consider her as a part of his life, the fact that she was a foreigner would give him pause for thought. She knew this, indeed she had known it from the very beginning, though it had not stopped her from dreaming impossible dreams. And they were impossible. She must keep telling herself this. It was the only way she could hang on to her pride. No matter how much she attracted Filippo, he would never regard her as anything other than a passing infatuation.

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