Ellie Pride by Annie Groves

Author:Annie Groves [Groves, Annie]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction, General, Romance, Sagas
ISBN: 9780007397877
Google: q5IBtVNEw4gC
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Published: 2011-11-24T00:00:00+00:00

TWENTY-ONE

‘Dead? Dozens of people killed? But not Gideon? You did say not Gideon, Cecily?’ Ellie could not hide her panic.

‘No, no, he’s alive. But it was awful, Ellie, truly dreadful.’

Ellie learned of the accident within hours of it happening from her cousin Cecily, who had heard of it from her mother.

‘Gideon!’ she whispered, pressing her hand to her breast as though to control the furious racing of her heart, and swaying so much that she had to reach for a chair in Cecily’s morning room to support herself. ‘Gideon has been hurt?’

‘Ellie, I’m so sorry,’ Cecily tried to comfort her, her own face paling as she recognised the intensity of Ellie’s emotions. Ellie had always insisted that Mr Walker no longer meant anything to her, and Cecily had believed her, but now…It was too late for her to wish that she had not mentioned his name, Cecily recognised, or to refuse to answer Ellie’s frantically anxious questions.

‘What has happened? Tell me. I want to know everything. Tell me, Cecily,’ she demanded fiercely.

Cecily bit her lip, but Ellie would not be denied.

‘Tell me,’ she insisted.

‘Well, it seems that my father saw Mr Walker when he was first taken into hospital,’ Cecily informed her reluctantly, ‘and –’

‘He is in hospital?’

Cecily looked away, her tender heart aching for the anguish she could see in her cousin’s eyes.

Then: ‘Ellie, Ellie, where are you going?’ she called after her worriedly as, without a word, Ellie turned and ran towards the door.

‘Cecily, I’m sorry, I have to go,’ she told her.

They had planned to go shopping together, but Cecily made no attempt to dissuade her. Nevertheless, just as soon as Ellie had gone she lost no time in telephoning her husband to confide in him her anxieties about her cousin.

‘She must still love him, Paul,’ she wept. ‘And yet she has always denied doing so.’

‘She is more than likely suffering from shock,’ Paul had comforted her. ‘Leave her be for now, Cecily. Ellie is a sensible and very strong young woman. She will soon be her normal self again, you’ll see. As to her loving Gideon Walker, it would be unnatural in the circumstances if she were not affected by such dreadful news, but Ellie has accepted Henry’s proposal of marriage.’

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