Faith (Beach Brides Book 11) by Helen Scott Taylor

Author:Helen Scott Taylor [Taylor, Helen Scott]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: UNKNOWN
Published: 2017-07-31T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

Faith stood beneath the shower and let the water flow over her hair and down her body, absorbing the welcome warmth. Being stranded on a mountain in a cabin in a snowstorm for the night really made her appreciate home comforts such as hot water.

They were lucky that when they woke this morning, the storm had passed, and they managed to hike to the car park at the bottom of the forest where one of Hew’s estate workers picked them up. His four-wheel-drive vehicle was equipped with snow chains, but the ride back to Kindrogan Castle was still hairy on the narrow mountain roads.

The track from the castle to Kinder Vale had been cleared, and as long as there was no more snow before she had to leave the following day, she should be able to catch a train back to Edinburgh in time for duty on Tuesday. She almost wished it would snow again so she could stay a few more days with Hew, to get to know him better. Her initial impression that he would be difficult to make out was wrong, and she very much liked what she knew so far.

Faith sang softly to herself as she washed her hair, then stepped out and dried herself. She blow-dried her hair, dressed in warm clothes, and added a touch of makeup before heading downstairs. On Monday, before he dropped her at the train station, Hew had promised to take her to the veterinary clinic in Kinder Vale so she could meet the senior partner, Greg Coburn. This afternoon, Hew had invited her to walk around the loch to visit his cottage.

She ran downstairs, the weariness from the hiking washed away by the warm shower, and followed the sound of voices. She found herself at the door to the estate office, situated off the hall in the opposite direction to the kitchen. Hew sat behind a huge old oak desk staring at a laptop, with Fergus in a chair beside him.

Hew gave her his half smile as she walked in. She’d first thought his guarded expression meant he was difficult to please; now she realized he was simply wary of displaying his emotions. When he’d confided his past, she’d sensed that the death of Fergus’s mother had affected him deeply. He obviously felt guilty, even though he had known nothing of the pregnancy.

Fergus jumped up and grabbed a bottle from the windowsill. He held it out to her, and she took it with a wry smile. It was the prosecco bottle containing her message she’d tossed into the Caribbean Sea nearly three years ago. Some of the other girls in the Romantic Hearts Book Club had met their life partners through their bottles.

“Oh my. I won’t forget this in a hurry.”

Faith had believed her bottle must be lost in the depths of the ocean after this long, but now she wondered if there wasn’t something a little magical about the whole concept of throwing out a message in a bottle.

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