My Map of You by Isabelle Broom

Author:Isabelle Broom
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781405925280
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Published: 2016-03-08T05:00:00+00:00

19

She wasn’t sure when it had stopped raining, but when Holly woke up the next morning there was a thin, bright trail of sunshine thrown across the tangled sheets.

Aidan’s sheets.

Oh dear God, she was in Aidan’s bed.

Mercifully, given the mild panic she was feeling and the way her hair appeared to have dried in the shape of a bashed-in beehive, Aidan himself was nowhere to be seen. Feeling like a total idiot, Holly bent her head to sniff his pillow and allowed herself a small smile. She lay there for a few seconds, straining to hear the waves hitting the shore and waiting for the guilt to crash over her. Oddly, though, she didn’t feel very guilty at all. What had happened last night had felt inevitable, but more than that: it had felt right. She quelled a sudden ridiculous urge to get up and jump up and down on the bed – she wanted to throw open the windows and yell across the mountains, ‘I had sex with an amazing man last night!’

‘The heat must be sending me mad,’ she said out loud, and then laughed at herself. It was clear that Aidan was not in the vicinity, so eventually she gave up waiting and, pulling on a discarded T-shirt that smelled deliciously of tall, dark, Irish vet, she headed downstairs.

There was a handwritten note propped up against the kettle. ‘Gone to get some stuff for the puppy. You’re beautiful.’ The puppy! She had almost forgotten all about her, the little lucky charm she’d rescued from the roadside. Had fate reached out a mischievous hand and placed her there for Holly to find? At this moment in time, it felt like a genuine possibility. Would this ever have happened had it not been for the puppy? The idea alarmed her, but she swept it aside just as quickly as it had occurred to her. No, this would always have happened, one way or another. There was something about Aidan, an extra layer to him that she’d never come across in another human being before – and whatever it was, it had worked its way under her skin.

You trust him, whispered the voice inside her head. You’ve never trusted anyone before in your life, but you trust him.

With this realisation, Holly also became urgently aware that she wanted to tell Aidan everything: all about her mum, her past, the things she’d discovered since she’d arrived in Zakynthos – all of it. What had seemed so terrifying just a day ago now felt like the most natural thing in the world, and she was impatient to get started now. The minutes clicked by like hours, and just as she was contemplating climbing an actual wall in frustration, Holly heard the sound of the jeep engine and felt her heart start to rattle with excitement. Ignoring the urge to run down the path and leap into Aidan’s arms like a wild monkey – she wasn’t entirely insane – Holly busied herself making tea in the kitchen and only turned round when she could sense that he was a few feet behind her.

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