La Vie en Bleu by Jody Klaire

Author:Jody Klaire
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction - Romantic Comedy
Publisher: Bedazzled Ink Publishing
Published: 2016-03-29T04:00:00+00:00

MORNING ECHOED WITH the sound of birdcalls. It would be a beautiful day. The scent of summer filled the air as Berne set out breakfast.

“Did you fix the problem?” Berne asked Babs as she wandered over in search of black coffee.

Babs had been very much distracted by something all evening, spending large amounts of time secluded in her tent.

“I think so but I am not sure if the client will approve.”

“Non?” Berne handed her the coffee.

“He wants a little boy’s room but I think he will find it more useful as a sauna. His space could be placed somewhere less . . . obtrusive.”

“I think that he likes to be so.” Berne looked up as Rebecca wandered over and threw her the sun cream. “Bonjour.”

“Thanks.” Rebecca caught the cream. “What’s up?”

“Babs wishes to move Doug’s room to a more secluded place.”

Rebecca laughed then stopped laughing when she realised Babs was serious. “Doug won’t do that. Doug doesn’t do compromise.”

“I ask this once again,” Babs said. “Why is she with him?”

Berne watched Rebecca put the sun cream on. She took her time, Berne guessed, to calculate an answer that would appease while staying loyal to Pippa.

“Well, we’d been in the firm for a couple of years when Doug’s people hired us.”

She lathered the cream on her arms. Her tattoos covered by the white goop. Berne noted Babs was riveted to the action.

“Doug was . . . and is . . . a cool guy. He was suave and he’s a hunk. He pretty much made it clear that he wanted Pip.”

“He pursued her?” Babs’s lips parted as Rebecca splodged cream on her neck and shoulders.

Berne shook her head, concentrating on the food.

“Yeah, I mean Pip seemed to like him enough. I thought that was just her way. It wasn’t until I saw her around Berne that I—” Rebecca smiled.

“Ça va?” Babs was leaning forward, avid in her concentration as Rebecca’s hands stopped their motion.

“Well, it was then I saw how love became her.”

“He does not see her true worth,” Berne said, jabbing at the food. Still, she couldn’t help but smile with the observation. It was good to know that even when Pippa was with this man, he had been far from her heart.

Rebecca “mmm’d” her agreement as she slapped the cream on her legs.

Berne took the tipping coffee cup out of Babs’s hands as she drooled. “Why is she loyal if he is not so good to her?”

“He’s a good guy.” Rebecca ran her hands over her thighs, oblivious to Babs. “A dense guy, who doesn’t know that Pip isn’t playing hard to get. I have the impression that he thinks the moment they’re married that she will melt into his arms.”

The visual memories of Pippa doing just that in her own embrace made Berne’s body pulse. Was it wrong to enjoy the fact that she had seen such a transformation and he hadn’t?

“I know what you’re thinking,” Rebecca said.

Babs sat upright.

Berne shook free thoughts of Pippa from her mind.

“You do?” they said in unison.

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