Always the Best Man by Fiona Harper

Author:Fiona Harper [Harper, Fiona]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Romance, Contemporary, Fiction
ISBN: 9780373178261
Google: TLGTQLT-DdsC
Amazon: 0373178263
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2012-08-06T21:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER NINE

THEY swam and explored the beach until the sun had almost set. Zoe would have continued to swim there all night if she could have, but Damien suddenly got twitchy, talking about dinner and how busy it would be even in St Mawes, so Zoe reluctantly followed him back to the boat.

He looked so tense by the time they climbed back on board that they just shoved casual clothes on over the top of their swimming things and headed straight off in search of a café or pub in the dinghy.

Just as Zoe had expected, they were fine. They found a pub that served bar snacks and, yes, they had to wait a while for their food and pad the meagre portions out with a couple of packets of crisps, but their tummies were full at the end of the evening, and surely that was what counted?

When she saw Damien scowling at the empty packets, Zoe couldn’t help but make an observation. ‘You really don’t like to veer from the plan, do you?’

Damien shrugged as he drained the last of his beer. ‘I don’t see the crime in that. Plans help you get where you want to go in life.’

She had to give him that. He’d certainly proved that in his professional life.

‘You have plans for your business, don’t you?’ he asked.

Zoe nodded. She had plans, she supposed, although she liked to think of them as dreams. It sounded less suffocating.

‘And once you lay down your plans, you start working towards making them a reality, don’t you?’ Damien added.

Zoe nodded again, although this time she started thinking about her dream of owning her own premises. What exactly had she done to make that happen, aside from wandering round other people’s shops and sighing? Not a lot, actually.

‘But surely there has to be some balance,’ she said. ‘It can’t be work twenty-four hours a day. What about room for fun, the joy that can only come from following a mad impulse?’

Damien’s eyes instantly narrowed and his shoulders tensed. When his next words came out, they seemed to have been squeezed out between his teeth. ‘What about the chaos that can follow? You were the first one to moan when your “impulse” to divert from the course yesterday afternoon didn’t end well.’

‘Okay, I admit that, but you have to step outside the box occasionally, follow your heart sometimes?’

Damien pushed his chair back and stood up, even though he hadn’t finished his drink. ‘That’s the problem with people like you. You jump in and “follow your heart”—’ he almost sneered as he said those words ‘—and don’t even notice the trail of destruction you leave behind you.’

Zoe smiled, but it was a puzzled smile. What was he talking about? What trail of destruction? Yes, she’d knocked him in the water a few days ago, but apart from that she’d done nothing.

‘Nobody said life was perfect. Sometimes it’s unpredictable—’ her smile grew ‘—you said it yourself! It’s like sailing. Dealing with the unexpected

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