Liam's Secret Son by Carole Mortimer - Liam's Secret Son

Author:Carole Mortimer - Liam's Secret Son [Mortimer, Carole]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: AcM
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2001-06-23T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHT

PREDICTABLY, the telephone at Laura’s home began ringing before eight o’clock the next morning. And continued to ring.

Laura had answered the first call, found herself talking to a reporter on a different daily newspaper from the National Daily, and quickly ended the conversation—only to have the phone ring again seconds later. To go unanswered. As the following dozen or so calls went unanswered, too. Until Laura decided to actually take the receiver off the hook. It meant she couldn’t receive any genuine personal calls either, but in the circumstances it was a small price to pay.

How members of the press had got hold of her private home number she had no idea; she never ceased to be amazed by the amazing network that fed them.

To say she was annoyed by this intrusion was an understatement! Thank goodness Bobby was still fast asleep, no doubt exhausted by events; Laura wasn’t sure how she would have answered his questions about the fact that the telephone receiver was being left permanently off the hook!

When the doorbell rang shortly after nine o’clock Laura opened the door to find one of the more determined reporters standing on her doorstep, vaguely waving his press card in her face before launching into a series of quick-fire questions. Questions Laura had no intention of answering. After telling him the inevitable ‘no comment’, she quietly and firmly closed the door in the young man’s face.

But she could see several other reporters, some with cameras, hovering at the end of the pathway as she did so, and her irritation turned to anger as she realised she would probably have to run the gauntlet of them if she wanted to leave the house at all today.

Her only consolation was that Liam was probably faring just as badly!

Not that she had expected her own privacy to be invaded in this way. It was Shipley Publishing the press should be talking to, not Laura Shipley herself.

Liam!

This was all his fault. If he hadn’t been so determined to have his own way none of this would be happening.

The doorbell rang again.

And again, when Laura didn’t move to answer it.

And yet again as she continued to stand in the hallway, glaring at the closed front door.

The incessant noise would wake Bobby in a minute, and then she was going to be really angry!

She wrenched open the door. ‘I thought I told you—Liam!’ she recognised, startled, as she found he was the one now standing on her doorstep, and groaned her dismay as several cameras flashed in her face. ‘Come inside,’ she instructed furiously, grabbing his arm to drag him into the hallway and close the door against those intruding cameras. ‘What on earth are you doing here?’ she demanded accusingly, knowing his presence here at her home was only going to add fuel to the fire.

Liam didn’t look any happier than she did, scowling down at her darkly. ‘Your telephone has been constantly engaged for the last hour,’ he rasped. ‘What else was I

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