Finishing Touches by Patricia Scanlan

Author:Patricia Scanlan [Scanlan, Patricia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781471141089
Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK

Twenty-Six

Aileen was in that delicious state between waking and sleeping. She stretched luxuriously in her old bed, which was now Judy’s, and thought how nice it was to be at home with the girls. Although she loved London with its fast, urgent pace of life, she really missed her pals. But she had done the right thing going over there to work. There were far more opportunities for beauticians because of the bigger market, and she was glad she had given up her job as a permanent and pensionable officer of the Corporation. Aileen was just not permanent and pensionable material.

Ending her affair with Liam had been the hardest thing she had ever done. Even now after all this time, just thinking about him could make her want him. In his arms, her restlessness would cease and she would become contented, almost serene. And then he would go home to his wife, and she would wonder was their marriage really on the rocks. Did they really not make love any more, as Liam assured her? And if that were the case, why then didn’t he just end it once and for all and come and live with Aileen.

She had been tormented and besotted with him, craving his company and their wonderful sessions of sensual lovemaking that made her want more and more. The loneliness she felt when he left her to go home to his unloved wife was indescribable. Desperate to assure herself that Liam Flynn’s marriage was really on the rocks, she had rung his wife, just to hear the voice of the grouchy, tetchy woman that she imagined Monica Flynn to be. The pleasant, cultured voice that answered her call made Aileen’s insides go cold and she had hung up, palms sweating.

That woman sounded nothing like the woman Liam had described to her. She even sounded quite young. Maybe they had visitors! Somehow, the next weekend, she had managed to edge the conversation around to the family and Liam had confirmed her worst fears by telling her that because they had the house to themselves at the moment his wife had decided to redecorate, and if there was one thing he hated, it was decorating. He dreaded having workmen in the house because it interfered with his creative processes when he was designing buildings and drawing up plans.

‘Thank God I have you to come to,’ he murmured in her ear as his hand slid up under her jumper, the feel of his long caressing fingers against her breast making her ache with desire. They had just had a meal and were cuddling in his car out at the back of the airport. It was dark and private, with only the occasional roar of a jet taking off or landing to disturb them. They often made love there. Banishing her fears Aileen kissed him with a passion that aroused him frantically, and tearing the clothes off each other they made urgent, mind-blowing love. When he left her home, Aileen cried her eyes out in the privacy of her bedroom.

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