Angel of Darkness by Katy Munger
Author:Katy Munger [Munger, Katy]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: cookie429, Extratorrents, Kat
Publisher: Severn House Publishers Ltd
Published: 2012-01-09T07:00:00+00:00
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Kelda’s week in New York modelling designer knitwear stretched to five weeks in the end. Russ had tugged some useful strings, put her on the cover of two glossy magazines and all of a sudden she had found that her career was taking off again. For a month she was heavily in demand. Ella was constantly on the phone to her and slowly but surely she got word of possible assignments back home as well. The world had a short memory. Danny Philips was old news.
She was flicking through her diary on the flight back to London when she noticed. She raked through the pages again, certain she had made a mistake. But she had not made an oversight. There was no familiar little cross marking the start of her last period. She was three weeks overdue.
She sat there in a blank haze of shock, suddenly cold and shivery. Her heart had plunged to her stomach and her stomach felt as if she had swallowed an indigestible lump of concrete. It had felt like that several times before over the past ten days. She had lost weight through her lack of appetite but that hadn’t worried her. A model could never be too thin for the camera.
She had blocked out those days in Italy very efficiently since leaving London. Work had been her panacea, her saviour. She had been too busy and too tired to torment herself with vain regrets for what couldn’t be altered. It was over. She had made a mistake. She could learn to live with that...that was what she had told herself when her mind strayed.
And now this. It couldn’t happen to her, she had thought in Italy, brushing that spur of fear away with confidence. She had never thought about being pregnant, couldn’t even imagine being pregnant, and now she was faced with the possibility that she might well be. In defiance, she listed all the other things that might have made her late, but the cloud of dark foreboding refused to lift.
She bought a pregnancy test at the airport. Even that embarrassed the hell out of her. Her name came over the public address system while it was being wrapped and she froze.
Tomaso and Daisy had come to meet her off the plane but traffic had held them up. She was touched, but her recent purchase weighed like lead in her holdall.
‘We’ve got a surprise for you,’ Daisy asserted.
Kelda gave her mother a rather weak smile and climbed into the back of Tomaso’s stately Rolls. ‘What sort of a surprise?’
‘The cottage is yours,’ her mother pointed out. ‘And after next week I won’t be needing it any more—’
Next week—the wedding that Kelda was dreading.
‘Tomaso wanted to buy your apartment but it went very quickly, didn’t it?’ Daisy sighed. ‘I assumed it would be on the market for ages and I was wrong—’
Kelda bent her head, not knowing where to look. She had found a rented flat in Highgate before she went to
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