Follow Your Star by Jennifer Bohnet

Author:Jennifer Bohnet [Jennifer Bohnet]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780719805400
Publisher: Robert Hale
Published: 2012-09-03T04:00:00+00:00

The following morning Mathieu left on his business trip and Nanette’s day slipped into its normal routine imposed by the twin’s school timetable.

With the memory of Jean-Claude’s kiss fresh in her mind, Nanette felt strangely shy when she took the twins up to his villa for their routine after-school swim. But she needn’t have worried. Jean-Claude, always the perfect gentleman, greeted her and the twins in his normal manner.

It was only when they were alone for a few minutes as the twins dried and dressed themselves, that he took her in his arms and gently kissed her.

‘How are you today, ma chérie?’ he asked. Nanette smiled at him shyly, as her heart skipped a beat at his use of the endearment. She hadn’t imagined it; the kiss had meant something to him as well.

‘Do you have any plans for tomorrow evening?’ he asked. ‘I thought maybe you’d like some company after the twins are in bed,’ he added.

Realizing that Jean-Claude had remembered that tomorrow was the third anniversary of her accident, Nanette nodded.

‘Please.’

‘I have a business meeting early evening but I should be with you by about nine o’clock,’ Jean-Claude said.

‘The twins have a school play rehearsal. I have to collect them at eight-thirty so by the time we’ve walked back that would be perfect.’

‘Good. I think we have things to talk about, ma chérie.’ Jean-Claude said softly.

The streets were quiet as Nanette walked slowly through Monaco to collect the twins the following evening. It would be another half-hour before the rush of people out to enjoy themselves for the evening began to make their way to the restaurants and nightclubs.

The hall where the twins were rehearsing was part of the modern apartment block where Zac had lived years ago and Nanette found her footsteps dragging the nearer she got to the building.

Having deliberately avoided this particular area of Monte Carlo since her return, Nanette couldn’t help thinking how ironic it was that it should be this evening of all evenings that she was once again having to come to this particular building.

Nanette tried to push thoughts of the past out of her mind and concentrate on present-day aspects of her life – the twins, Jean-Claude, particularly Jean-Claude – but as she crossed the road towards the apartment block, images from her past began to merge with the present-day ones.

The lights were on in various apartments, including No.5 where she and Zac had spent so much time together. As Nanette glanced up, a glamorous woman came to the window, drawing the curtains, shutting Nanette and the world out.

Standing in the middle of the small service road that led to the underground garage, Nanette stared up at the window. Three years ago she and Zac were in that apartment getting ready to go out and celebrate her birthday before he left for the next Grand Prix.

She remembered how happy she’d been as they left the apartment. Stepping hand in hand with Zac into the lift to go down to the garage.

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