Answered Prayers by Danielle Steel

Author:Danielle Steel
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, azw3
ISBN: 9780307566348
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2002-03-01T23:00:00+00:00

12

THE MORNING AFTER BRAD’S ARGUMENT WITH PAM, HE was on his way to work. He drove past St. Mary’s Cathedral on Gough, and had a sudden idea. He had an appointment at nine o’clock and didn’t have time to stop, so he gave his secretary a note when he got to the office, and she promised to get the information for him. She slipped him a piece of paper with an address an hour later, when he was on the phone talking to the district attorney’s office, and he signaled thanks and nodded his head. He went out to do the errand at eleven o’clock. It took him longer than he thought, but he was back by one.

He wrote Faith a note, and had a small box on his desk, and asked his secretary to Federal Express it to New York. At least he had one gift done. All he had to do now was go to Tiffany and take care of the rest, and he was planning to do that the following afternoon.

Faith and her family’s plans for Christmas were very traditional. They were having an informal dinner together on Christmas Eve. Faith usually went to midnight mass by herself, or with Zoe, if she could talk her into it, and they had a more formal dinner the next day, on Christmas night. They opened presents on Christmas morning, and spent the day hanging around the house. The day had been more exciting when the girls were young, but it was still a day that was important to all of them.

They talked to Ellie in Switzerland on the morning of Christmas Eve. It was dinnertime for her, and she sounded emotional when she heard them all on the phone. It was her first time spending Christmas away from them, and it was harder than she’d thought it would be, although everyone in Saint Moritz had been wonderful to her.

“We miss you, sweetheart,” Faith said when it was her turn to talk to her.

“Why don’t you come to London after New Year’s, Mom?” Eloise asked, sounding very young, and homesick for her family.

“I can’t, sweetheart. I’m starting school. I’ll have to wait now till I get a break. Or maybe you can come home for a long weekend.”

“I didn’t know you’d actually decided to go.” She sounded disappointed, which confirmed Alex’s objections to her plans, that it would interfere with him and their family. There had been no time to tell her since she’d signed up. Their last conversation had been all about her going to Switzerland with Geoff and his family for the holidays, and Faith had forgotten about her own news.

“I start classes in two weeks,” Faith said, expecting to be congratulated, but Ellie sounded upset.

“That’s such a mean thing to do to Dad.” She sounded disapproving, and Faith was hurt by what she said. And it was hard to talk about it with Alex standing next to her. She knew Zoe would be upset by her sister’s reaction too.

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