Coming Home to the Sunflower Cliffs by Georgina Troy

Author:Georgina Troy [Troy, Georgina]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Boldwood Books

The following morning Daisy woke before her alarm went off. Her first thought was the chaos that would be caused to the party guests if the fog hadn’t dispersed. Willing the fog to have lifted, she got out of bed and took three strides to her bedroom window. She pulled back the curtains and winced. She could barely see a few feet ahead of her. Her heart sank as she wondered how the party was going to turn out when most of its important guests wouldn’t be able to attend. She hurriedly showered and dressed and went to find Gabriel to see if there was anything she could do to help.

‘Not good, is it?’ he said, staring out of the front door of the hotel, his tanned arms crossed in front of his chest. ‘I spoke to Bryn and Soraya last night and explained that this sometimes happens. I tried to persuade them to book the ferry for them and their family to come across today. It’s the only way they’re going to get here. I hope they did as I suggested.’

‘Me too.’

‘I saw the Lapins de Lune van on my way through here,’ she said, recalling the two girls unloading their hampers with a tall fair man and two of the hotel bar staff. ‘I thought they did chintzy weddings, or that’s what Fi said anyway.’

‘They do all sorts of events,’ he said thoughtfully. ‘Shall we go and see if we can lend them a hand?’

They walked to the car park at the rear of the hotel.

‘They have vintage crockery with some nice Art Deco designs which they’ll use here,’ he said. ‘Izzy and Jess have only been going a couple of years, but they helped my parents out after the fire and they’re very hardworking girls,’ he said.

Daisy loved the idea of having her own business one day and said so.

‘What would you like to do?’ he asked, holding open the back door and stepping back to let her pass.

‘I’m not really sure. I’d love my own gallery, but I know that’s expensive and out of my league.’

‘You shouldn’t ever doubt yourself.’ He frowned. ‘You can do whatever you wish, you know. You’ll find a way, I’m sure of it.’

She smiled up at him. ‘I wish I had as much faith in my abilities as you seem to,’ she said, spotting the two girls still unloading their van and giggling with the men helping them.

‘I know what you mean,’ he said.

Confused by what he’d said, she stopped. ‘What?’

He shook his head. ‘Only that my grandmother was saying something similar to me the other day.’

She relaxed. She probably shouldn’t be so defensive. She was aware that for some reason she always assumed someone was trying to put her down or was making a derogatory remark. Especially Gabriel, but he’d only ever been kind to her, she realised. She wondered if it had something to do with the way her mum had always looked at things. She hoped she wasn’t

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