Christmas Secrets in Snowflake Cove by Emily Harvale

Author:Emily Harvale [Harvale, Emily]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Crescent Gate Publishing
Published: 2017-10-25T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Seventeen

‘It’s the least the man can do,’ Jessie said, when Evie dashed into the kitchen to tell her mum and gran about Brandon’s comment, once all the guests were checked in.

‘What does that mean, Gran? Is there something you’re not telling us?’

‘Nothing you need to know.’

Evie’s dad strolled in, with Roland and Raven close behind, and dropped onto a kitchen chair, leaning his arms on the table, a cheery smile on his face. Roland stood as near to Evie as he could without actually touching her and Raven perched on the arm of Jessie’s armchair, slid an arm around Jessie’s shoulder and gave her a kiss on her pale forehead.

Evie was as astonished as Jessie.

‘What was that for?’ Jessie asked, trying to shrug off Raven’s arm, but unable to hide the smile creeping over her thin lips.

‘Just felt like it, Grammie,’ Raven replied. ‘That was fun, wasn’t it, Grandpa?’

John nodded. ‘It certainly was. What a lovely bunch of people. Zachary is as nice in real life as he is on TV and as for his parents, well, Molly my love...’ He glanced at his wife, ‘... you’re going to enjoy chatting to them. And you wouldn’t know Joshua was one of the richest men in the UK if he didn’t have that Felicia woman telling all and sundry.’ He shook his head and laughed. ‘She needs to get a bit more festive spirit inside her.’

‘She refused the mulled wine,’ Raven said.

Evie laughed. ‘She looked as if she thought it might kill her. What surprised me the most was that she’s got a boyfriend. I assume Pete’s her boyfriend. He could just be her personal slave. He was the last guy I checked in before the rest of the Thorn family, and all he said was that his name was Peter Poulter but we could call him Pete, that he was in “Zach’s TV crew” and when I said we seemed to be a room short but not to worry because there was another vacant room, he laughed and said, “I’m in with Felicia.” I was so shocked I couldn’t speak and he had to ask me twice what room she was in.’

‘Poor guy,’ Raven said.

‘Oh I don’t know,’ Roland said, staring straight at Evie. ‘She was pretty hot. Or she would be, with the right man.’

Molly gave him a stern look and waved a wooden spoon at him. ‘No fraternising with the guests, young man.’ Then she chuckled and added: ‘I’ll tell your mother.’

Roland shot her a quick look, smiled and looked Evie up and down as if he was taking in every last detail about her.

‘No need,’ he said. ‘I’m not interested in Felicia.’

Evie moved as far away from him as she could without drawing attention to what she was doing. That boy needed to be chained beneath a cold shower. She’d have to do something to make him see that he had about as much chance of hooking up with her as she did of her hooking up with Zachary Thorn.

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