Katy Carter Wants a Hero by Ruth Saberton

Author:Ruth Saberton [Saberton, Ruth]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Man-woman relationships, Contemporary Women, Contemporary, General, Romance, Women - Conduct of life, Marriage, Chick lit, Fiction
ISBN: 9781409103189
Publisher: Orion Publishing
Published: 2010-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

I wake the next morning not to the cry of gulls as I’d expected, but to the soft throaty call of a cuckoo. For a moment I lie still, enjoying the feeling of the sun on my face as it falls in ribbons through the gap in the curtains.

I’m in bed on a weekday morning and I don’t have to get up or go anywhere if I don’t want to. It’s weird to be without my usual sense of panic (Shit! Forgot to mark Year 8’s books!) or heavy sensation of impending doom (Arse! Year 11 last lesson!). I ought to feel guilty that I’m lying here in bed while my poor ex-colleagues cram themselves on to the tube before embarking on a long day nagging stroppy adolescents about taking off their trainers and doing up their ties. But do you know what? I don’t feel guilty at all.

I feel free!

I push off the duvet, pad across the wooden floor to the window and swish the curtains apart. Instantly the room is drenched with buttery light and outside the sea is a deep glittery blue. Boats rock merrily in the harbour and seagulls bob idly on the waves.

‘Cuckoo! Cuckoo!’ I hear again, and now I’m sufficiently awake, I realise that it’s actually the text alert on my mobile phone. The seagulls are calling outside and one very persistent individual is busy attacking a fish head on the quayside. I rub my eyes and yawn, retrieve my phone and take it back to bed with me.

Maddy’s party in Fowey was actually really good fun. A group of fishermen’s wives, their purses bulging with the fruits of their husbands’ latest catch, were merrily pissed and desperate to spend as much money as possible. Before long, basques, suspenders and leather corsets were doing the rounds and Throbbing Theo and his cronies were buzzing and wiggling like a lively boy band. I won a willy-shaped soap in the rude-word bingo, and I also have a hazy memory of ordering some ridiculously frilly underwear. Mads reckoned she took a record amount of orders.

I hope so. The sooner she pays for this holiday, the sooner I’ll be able to breathe easy. Thinking of Richard driving around in a minibus stuffed full of sex aids that I’ll be blamed for isn’t conducive to a good night’s sleep. At least I managed to write another chapter of Heart of the Highwayman during the night, and, if I say so myself, it’s pretty steamy stuff! Perhaps all this Anna Spring business will have an odd effect on me and I’ll end up writing sizzling erotica. My parents would be so proud of such evidence of my sexual liberation!

I ignore the mobile and pull my notebook out from beneath my pillow. No way am I going to risk this copy falling into enemy hands. Besides, if Richard finds it, his opinion of me will be even lower, and since it’s already at earthworm level, this is a risk I do not want to take.

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