Carole Singer's Christmas by Emily Harvale

Author:Emily Harvale [Harvale, Emily]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Crescent Gate Publishing
Published: 2013-10-22T23:00:00+00:00

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Carole couldn’t believe what Josie had told her. She knew her friend wasn’t lying, of course; they’d known each other since primary school and they’d always told one another the truth, even when that truth had been painful. Best friends did that.

But the thought of Mr Jarvis trying it on with someone young enough to be his daughter, and someone who was a friend of his son what’s more, well, that was just too difficult to comprehend. He was Sebastian’s dad. Only dirty old men seduced young women. Dads didn’t.

She realised how ridiculous that premise was though. Thousands of young women had affairs with much older men; some even married them and lived perfectly happily together for the rest of their lives, but this was Sebastian’s dad for heaven’s sake. And no matter how much she thought about it – and she thought about it a great deal all day long, she just couldn’t get it to sink in.

What she really needed to do was to talk to her gran about it but once she and Josie had returned to Jutsdown after her meeting, she’d gone directly to the garden centre. Thanks to yet more delays and train cancellations, she was now running even later.

‘Are you okay? You seem ... preoccupied,’ Nick asked.

‘What? Oh. Um. No. I mean, yes, I’m fine, it’s just ...’

‘Just ...?’

‘It’s not something I can talk to you about.’

Nick gave her a serious look. ‘You can talk to me about anything, Carole. Is ... is it about Sebastian and Dominic? I hear your boyfriend’s coming down this weekend. That’s going to be difficult to–’

‘You see! That’s it, right there. We just can’t have a conversation without you making some sarcastic remark about my boyfriend and my fiancé!’

Nick seemed surprised.

‘Do I? I can’t even remember the last time we had a conversation, well not one that lasted for more than two minutes anyway, and I certainly don’t recall mentioning either your boyfriend or your fiancé when we did. Although I’d heard that he isn’t your fiancé ... yet.

‘Well, that just shows how much attention you really pay when we do have one! And he isn’t my fiancé. At least the village gossips have got that bit right.’

‘Okay. Look, I apologise if you think I’m always being sarcastic but you must admit, it’s a pretty odd situation. I suppose it’s a good thing only one of them lives here. You’d never be able to have a relationship with two people if they lived in the same village, especially such a small one as this. Are you worrying how you’re going to keep Dominic from finding out about–?’

‘You’re doing it again!’

‘No, I’m not. That’s not sarcasm, that’s a genuine question. Or does he know about Sebastian?’

‘Of course he knows about Sebastian! Well ... he doesn’t know he’s back in the village. I haven’t had a chance to tell him that yet. And he doesn’t know that Sebastian proposed either.’

‘So that’s pretty much a ‘No’ then? This weekend should be fun.

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