From Notting Hill With Love . . . Actually by Ali McNamara

Author:Ali McNamara [McNamara, Ali]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, azw3, epub
Tags: General, Contemporary Women, Fiction
ISBN: 9780748117239
Google: toySNxYFPakC
Amazon: B004DI71YI
Publisher: Sphere
Published: 2010-11-25T00:00:00+00:00

Twenty-one

Sean and I stood on the pavement in the shadow of the Arc de Triomphe. We’d been in Paris for most of the day, visiting the many Louis Vuitton stores that were scattered across the city. Now we had just emerged from the Métro yet again and we found ourselves this time on the bustling and ultra-chic Champs-Elysées.

‘Right, I think it’s this way,’ Sean said, looking up from his map. ‘We’re looking for 101.’ Eagerly he set off along the pavement.

With slightly less enthusiasm, I followed.

It had not been a very successful morning so far. To begin with, there had been a decidedly chilly air in the hotel room as I’d packed my things into my suitcase and prepared to meet Sean downstairs after breakfast.

David hadn’t said too much after the events of the night before. He’d been polite and courteous, as he always was, but he’d been distant too.

I couldn’t say I blamed him. After what he’d told me last night, I realised he was right – I hadn’t given any thought to how all this must seem to him. If the shoe had been on the other foot, and it was David racing about with another woman in tow, would I have been as gracious to David as he had been to me, and let him continue? I think not.

I vowed once this was all over I would somehow make it up to him.

Not that I wanted it all to be over: that was something else I hadn’t given much thought to – returning home again. Once my time was up, that was it – I would return to Stratford, to Maddie, my father and to David, and I would probably never see Ursula, Oscar or, more importantly, Sean, ever again.

I sighed heavily.

‘Hey, buck up,’ Sean said. ‘She has to be at one of them – it’s just a matter of time.’

‘It’s not that. I was just thinking about something David said last night.’

It was Sean’s turn to sigh now. I knew he hadn’t been very impressed by David’s actions.

‘What has he said this time?’

‘He asked me what would happen if we do find my mother and she doesn’t want anything to do with me. After all, if she didn’t want me when I was a baby, why should she want me now?’

Sean stopped walking, placed his hands firmly on my shoulders, and turned me around to face him.

‘Stop this,’ he ordered, looking directly into my eyes. ‘You were so enthusiastic about all this before last night – there were no doubts in your mind at all about what you were doing. All you wanted was to find your mother. You weren’t worrying about who she was, or what she’d think of you – just that you’d finally get to meet her.’

‘I know but …’

‘But nothing, Scarlett – it’s David who has put all these doubts in your mind. I don’t know what he said to you after I left last night – but it hasn’t done you any good.

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