Digging Deep by Kay Jaybee

Author:Kay Jaybee [Jaybee, Kay]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Xcite Books
Published: 2013-01-06T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

Resisting the temptation to cup her hand in Harrison’s as they looked for the students who should have been in view already, Beth reverted to their conversation as if the previous few minutes hadn’t happened. ‘The thing is, I can’t think of anyone who’d want to check on me, or who, if they heard what Candida had said down the phone, would believe them. Everyone at home, apart from Linda apparently, is lovely. And I don’t know anyone on your side of the water, so I can’t see how I could have upset them.’

‘Exactly.’ Harrison knocked back his Stetson as he spoke, showing a band of perspiration on his forehead. Not for the first time, he made Beth think of a movie cowboy. ‘At first, I thought that maybe Candida had set me up. That she’d followed me to the garden, and there hadn’t been anybody on the end of her cell at all.’

‘Why would she do that?’ Beth, her hands on her hips, stepped up onto the raised bank at the side of the field and scanned the olive grove, which was spookily devoid of human life. ‘You said Candida spoke as if she was responding to someone on the end of the call, answering questions and stuff.’

Harrison sighed. ‘She’s quite the little actress, and I wouldn’t put it past her to have invented the whole thing. However, the more I think about it, the more I’m sure there was someone there after all.’

Saddened by how quickly their moment of passion had been diluted by thoughts of Candida, Beth said, ‘At the risk of repeating myself, why would Candida want to get you to believe that I am untrustworthy?’

Harrison spoke with inflexible deliberation. ‘I told you, she is basically my stalker. She’s been a pain in my butt for ages.’ Harrison’s voice lowered an octave as he gestured around them, to where he was expecting Ryan and Candida to appear any second.

‘I can’t see what Candida pretending to have slept with you has to do with her hating me!’ Beth said, as he took hold of her hands.

Harrison snorted with a combination of exasperation and regret. ‘’Cos she feels threatened by you, of course.’

‘What?’ Beth spluttered against the mouth of her water bottle. ‘That’s stupid. She’s younger than me, prettier than me, has a tan I would kill for, and a better body shape than mine by miles.’

Tilting the brim of his hat forward to shade his face, Harrison shut his eyes and took a deep breath. His annoyance at his student transformed into frustration at having to reassure Beth again; an act that seemed insane to him considering what she’d just done to him. ‘I will say this once more, doll, so listen up. Candida is younger than you, but otherwise don’t talk crap. You knock spots off her and you know it.’ With barely a pause for breath he added, ‘And the reason she is here is simple.’

‘Simple?’ Beth faltered. Had Harrison really just said that?

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