Lindsay Armstrong by Don't Call it Love

Author:Don't Call it Love [HR-2653, MB-2250] (v0.9) (epub)
Language: eng
Format: epub

CHAPTER SEVEN

‘Can I talk to you?’ Anna said hesitantly.

It was late, and if it hadn’t been for Phil’s revelation earlier in the day about her trip to London, Anna would not now be in the boatshed trying to talk to her boss, she knew.

In fact, she had had to force herself to go to dinner, although it hadn’t turned out to be the ordeal she had feared, but only because Richard had received a phone call before the meal, a business call that had been a lengthy one, and Letty had finally taken his dinner to him in the study on a tray.

Yet it hadn’t been a bed of roses either. Chrissy had been visibly tense and Phil unsuccessfully trying to project the image of not having a care in the world. Only Letty had appeared normal.

Richard looked up from the bench he was working at. He was still wearing the same jeans and khaki bush shirt he had had on earlier—for that matter, Anna was still wearing the simple lime green sundress she had worn all day that showed off her smooth tanned shoulders and went with the darkness of her hair. He said, ‘If you want to. Where’s Chrissy?’

‘She’s asleep.’

He glanced at his watch and looked surprised. ‘It’s later than I thought.’ He stretched and stood up and leant back against the bench, folding his arms across his chest and regarding her impersonally.

‘I ... was waiting for you to come up,’ Anna said awkwardly. ‘But perhaps this is a better spot anyway. More,’ she hesitated and looked round and . up at the exposed rafters and the shadows the light threw on the whitewashed walls, ‘private ...’

He smiled, but without humour. ‘I thought we’d dealt with everything of a private nature between us, Anna,’ he said coolly. ‘Not that it’s possible to keep anything private on Yandilla for long.’

‘I had worked that out,’ she answered dryly. ‘But this is about Phil. Has she said anything to you since we talked this afternoon?’

‘No. Nothing she wouldn’t normally have said. Why?’ He sounded curious.

‘I ... this afternoon I told her I was leaving.’ Anna looked down at her hands, then she raised her eyes and their gazes locked.

‘You don’t waste much time, do you, Anna?’

She flushed faintly, but said resolutely, ‘I’d thought we’d decided it would only make it harder if I did. But something’s come up which has made me wonder . .. well,’ she broke off helplessly, ‘I think you should know about it at least.’

He frowned. ‘Like what?’

She told him about Phil’s overseas trip.

‘Hell,’ he muttered. ‘I’d forgotten about it. But I’m sure it wasn’t due just yet. She hasn’t got the dates mixed up, has she?’

‘I don’t think so,’ Anna said slowly. ‘No, she got the letter today. Maybe she had the dates mixed up when she first told you about it?’

‘That’s more than bloody likely,’ he said impatiently. ‘And she wants to go?’

‘Very much, I think. But she said there was no possibility of going

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