After the Honeymoon by Fraser Janey

Author:Fraser, Janey [Fraser, Janey]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9781448151202
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2014-05-22T00:00:00+00:00

TRUE HONEYMOON STORY

‘A couple at the next table insisted on paying for our dinner. They were celebrating their forty-fifth anniversary and wanted to “share their good fortune”.’

Amelia, a newly-wed

Chapter Twenty-Five

ROSIE

The trip was fated! She’d had a bad feeling about it from the minute that Yannis had come on board, with the stench of wine about him. Recently, Rosie had decided she didn’t care very much for Greco’s cousin. Cara clearly couldn’t stand him, though, frustratingly, she refused to explain why. Rosie appreciated that he was a great cook, but he had an air of arrogance about him that grated. Just look at how he had turned up a week late, without so much as an apology. Nor did she like the way he was so familiar with the guests, especially Emma Walker.

If it hadn’t been for the fact that she was desperate for help in the kitchen, Rosie would have told him where to go.

‘Have you been drinking?’ she’d asked him sharply before they’d set off on the trip.

He’d shrugged, giving her that lazy smile of his. Here was a man who clearly fancied himself. Hah! It was wasted on her.

Greco, overhearing the exchange, had taken her aside. ‘He will be all right. I will keep an eye on him.’

Against her better judgment, Rosie had agreed, but only because she needed help with the picnic. Then when she’d seen him go up the beach and into the copse where the new Mrs Walker had just disappeared, she had felt extremely perturbed.

Should she go after them? Part of her wanted to, but at the same time, it was really none of her business. Emma Walker was a grown woman, and what she did or didn’t do was up to her.

Everyone, as she’d tried to tell Cara back at the villa, had the right to choose how they led their own lives. And it was her choice not to tell Jack the truth about his father, even if Cara thought otherwise.

‘We’ll talk about it when you return,’ the older woman had declared.

Much as Rosie loved Cara, she’d forgotten just how dogmatic and insistent she could be, like many Greek matriarchs.

But all this was nothing compared with what might have happened to Freddie. Rosie still felt sick with relief. Supposing the boy had drowned? It wasn’t the terrible publicity that worried her (although that would have been awful). It was how his poor mother would have coped.

Losing Jack would be her worst nightmare. Yet Melissa had been so calm, so dignified, as she’d waited, watching her husband scour the sea for him. She’d believed in him, Rosie realised, which was why she hadn’t gone to bits. And she had to hand it to Winston. He’d saved the boy, against the odds.

But now, just as everything seemed all right again, the engine had packed in! Rosie hadn’t believed it when Greco went to start it, after the picnic. She didn’t know much about boats but even she could tell that the spluttering and choking sound wasn’t good.

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