Bachelor's Family by Jessica Steele

Author:Jessica Steele [Steele, Jessica]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Harlequin Romance
Published: 2011-08-11T00:24:11+00:00

CHAPTER SIX

DAMN him, Fabienne fumed over the next couple of hours. Just because she and Alex had kissed cheeks in front of Kitty and John, she had had to put up with that! Moral welfare! The sauce of it!

The phone rang; she picked it up. 'Is Rachel there?' grated the man she most liked to hate.

'No, she's not!' Fabienne retorted bluntly-and slammed down the phone.

Two minutes later the humour of the situation struck her. Had she really slammed the phone down on the great Vere Tolladine? A weak laugh escaped her-that really was a banging offence! '

Perhaps, as a servant, she had been meant to go and look for Rachel?

Mutiny was about her again, but she was spared having to make a decision about whether or not to go looking for Rachel when Rachel came looking for her. Were rang, asking for you,' she informed her.

'I'll ring him back,' Rachel answered, and tentatively suggested, 'Fancy risking your neck with me at the steering-wheel? I need to go into Haychester for gifts for the children to take to this bun-fight this afternoon.'

Half an hour later and Fabienne, delighted at the progress Rachel was making, was seated in the passenger seat of Rachel's car as they set out for Haychester.

Nor did her progress end there for, when on other days a few hours of leaving her depression behind was as much as she could manage, Rachel stayed positive that day for far longer. Rachel it was who drove down to the school to collect the children, and Rachel it was who helped Fabienne wash and change them into, 'party clothes', and Rachel it was-admittedly requesting that Fabienne sit in the car with her, too-who drove them down to the village to the party.

'Come in and join the madhouse,' Lyndon Davies urged Fabienne while Rachel asked his sister what time they should pick the children up.

'I think, if you don't mind, I'll decline that one,' she laughed.

'Yet another of my invitations consigned to the scrap-heap!' he sighed. 'I shall not be deterred,' he brightened to tell her. 'I shall keep on trying.'

'Do that,' she answered automatically. 'That was a mistake,' she commented to Rachel as they returned to her car.

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