My Naughty Little Secret by Finnegan Tara

Author:Finnegan, Tara [Finnegan, Tara]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Stormy Night Publications
Published: 2013-05-06T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

Nothing would do Catherine but that I would stay for the dinner that I had missed on Wednesday night. I looked to Michael to help make it easy for me to leave, but he kept his mouth firmly shut. I didn’t know whether he wanted me to stay or go. James was no help either, adding his pleas to Catherine’s. My resistance met deaf ears. In the end I had to accept. It would have been extremely rude not to, but I really dreaded the thought of being cooped up, all four of us playing cosy, happy families when at that point in time I was still plotting sticking a voodoo doll of Michael with needles all over. I couldn’t help but have a quick snicker of a memory of a game Claire, Tara, and I sometimes played with our food. Perhaps I could secretly do it at the dinner table tonight to help me relax. When a man pissed any of us off, all three of us would shape our food into the shape of the offender, and bit by bit, chop body parts off and eat the pieces, chewing with relish, imagining the pain they would be feeling in the part of the anatomy we were eating. Yeah, I know it was very childish, but it was a lot cheaper than therapy! We always ended up laughing and the scorned party felt better for it.

Catherine said she needed to go to the shops to get some supplies and asked James to drive her. Judging by James’ questioning face, she was well able to drive herself and was trying to leave Michael and me on our own to give us time to talk. That was absolutely the last thing I wanted, but I was trapped. I could see he wasn’t really much more comfortable with the whole situation than I was. For starters, we were in his father’s home. Hardly the place for us to have a frank and open discussion. And I had made it pretty obvious that I didn’t really want that discussion, not yet, anyway. I was still hurting too much. I think he was too, but he seemed a bit more willing to talk.

I know I was wrong to jump to conclusions about Vivienne. But it transpired that the fates were against us. Even if Vivienne hadn’t turned up that day, we would have ended up in the same mess as I had been due to meet his family, which in fact had been his biggest lie of them all. No wonder he had been so uptight before I left for Ireland. He knew me better than I thought. True, for many a couple, it wouldn’t have been such a big deal, and maybe he could have told someone else sooner, but I could be a proud, stubborn woman and he knew that. I really didn’t want the world to think I was been granted special favours, and indeed I didn’t want to fear that I would be given them.

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