Baked with Love: The hotly awaited sequel to The Girl I Was Before (Lily McDermott Series Book 2) by Izzy Bayliss

Author:Izzy Bayliss [Bayliss, Izzy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Blue Gate Press
Published: 2018-03-03T06:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 23

Clara was a woman on a mission; she forensically checked Tom’s phone records and then scoured his home office for clues. When that turned up nothing, she looked for bills for a second phone. She even searched his car to see if she could find evidence of his affair.

Her accountant had reported back on Tom’s finances, which turned up a very large sum of money sequestered in an account in the Bahamas that Clara hadn’t known about. This she reckoned was proof that he was living a double life; it was all the evidence she needed. I had asked her whether she was going to confront him now that she had unrooted his finances, but she had looked at me with a glint of madness in her eyes.

“Oh no, Lily,” she said, shaking her head. “I’ve only just begun. By the time I’m done, Tom will wish he had never looked twice at the red-knickered tramp!”

Dad and I still couldn’t believe Tom would do something like that – this was Tom we were talking about – the most mild-mannered, patient man in Ireland. In fact, he always seemed kind of afraid of Clara. I couldn’t even imagine where he would have got the balls to conduct an extramarital relationship. Dad had asked Clara several times if she was sure they were knickers she had found and not a bit that had fallen off one of the Christmas garlands that were lavishly draped around her house. I thought that was a stretch myself, but I knew what Dad meant, Tom was the last person I would have expected to have an affair, but it just shows – it’s always the ones that you least suspect.

It was three days before Christmas and I was standing at the coffee machine as it hissed air into the milk when a voice from behind me said, “Surprise!”

I swung around and could not believe it when I saw Sam was standing there in front of me.

“Oh my God!” I said, throwing down the jug. “How did you get here?”

“It’s been so hard not to tell you, but I wanted it to be a surprise. Did you really think I’d let you spend Christmas without me?”

“Oh, Sam! This is just amazing.” Tears filled my eyes and I ran around from behind the counter and flung my arms around his neck. “Come into the kitchen.”

We ran in and embraced again. I needed to touch him to make sure he really was here and that it wasn’t just a dream. Dad’s head swung around from bench. “Sam? What the hell are you doing here?” he said, grinning. He walked over and clapped him on the back. “Welcome home!”

“Christmas isn’t Christmas without the people we love,” Sam said, beaming at me.

“You auld romantic you!” Dad said. “So how long will you be here for?”

“I leave again on the twenty-eighth, but I’m not even going to think about that now.”

“I just can’t believe you’re here!” I said, squeezing him.

Just then the oven beeped.

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