Holiday In the Hamptons by Sarah Morgan

Author:Sarah Morgan
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2017-08-25T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

ROSE FELICITY ADAMS lay asleep in Matilda’s arms. Hero lay across the doorway, his head resting on his paws.

“He won’t let us out of his sight,” Matilda said. “Chase is worried I’m going to trip over him.”

Fliss hovered at the edge of the room watching her friend. She’d never seen anyone so content. It was hard to believe the drama of a few nights before had ever happened. True, she looked tired, but there was a light in her eyes, and a smile of pure happiness hovered around her mouth. Fliss wished she could feel half as relaxed. Instead she felt restless and unsettled.

And it wasn’t seeing the baby. For some reason she didn’t entirely understand, the raw feelings of loss and grief that had poured out of her that night of the birth hadn’t returned. Somehow they’d diminished, the sharp edges worn away by the tide of her emotion. Emotional erosion.

No, it wasn’t baby Rose who was the cause of her current feelings.

It was Seth.

I want to discover what we have now.

What did he mean by that? They didn’t have anything now. Except confusion and a whole lot of new stress. She’d thought a conversation would be the end of something. Instead it seemed that it was the beginning. But the beginning of what?

Life would have been simpler if she’d stayed in Manhattan. Or if he’d stayed in Manhattan. Or if he’d been born less attractive. The moment she thought it, she dismissed it. It wasn’t about the way he looked but the way he was. Persistent and damn stubborn. Decent and caring.

And stubborn.

Other people mostly respected her boundaries. Seth seemed determined to invade them. Was that a legacy from his childhood? His family had always been open and communicative. Even when they’d been involved in a shouting match, they’d been communicating. It wasn’t just food they’d shared in the Carlyle household, it had been feelings. Feelings had been right there at the table along with glistening tomatoes and ripe goats’ cheese. To her, it had felt alien and unfamiliar. When they’d tried to include her, she’d answered as briefly as possible, her smile stretched and stiff. She hadn’t been able to switch off that side of her that constantly asked why do they want to know this and how are they going to use it against me?

She wanted desperately to be part of their group, to fit in, but nothing in her past had trained her for this. Her childhood had taught her not to engage. How to deflect any possible intrusion into her feelings. But Seth hadn’t been put off by those barriers. And it seemed nothing had changed.

The fact that he wanted to see her again made her nervous. Uneasy. Exposed. It was like setting the alarm on your house, knowing that the person watching from outside had both the key and the code and could walk in at anytime.

She shouldn’t have gone to his place for dinner. That had been a bad move. If

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