Never Say Love by Sarah Ashley

Author:Sarah Ashley [Ashley, Sarah]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B00JF579PK
Published: 2014-03-31T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 17

Lucy sat at the kitchen table pushing a piece of toast around her plate and sipping a cup of weak coffee that her mum had made, it had far too much milk, her parents watching her.

“I’ll be out of your way as soon as I can,” Lucy looked up to her mum. She knew she couldn’t stay here long, two or three days at the most before her and her mum would start arguing again, both independent women—it didn’t make for good living arrangements.

“No, love,” her dad jumped in, “you stay as long as you need. Come Monday, you can contact the agencies and try to get yourself another job. Do you want me to ask at the office? There was a vacancy for a dispatcher. I don’t know if they filled it?”

“Would you ask for me?” she looked at her dad, “please. I could do that I’m sure.”

Nodding his head, he looked at his daughter, “Lucy, you could do it with your eyes closed. I’ll ask. I’m on the early shift Monday.”

Lucy really didn’t want to work for the courier company that her dad was a salesman for, especially as a dispatcher for the same day couriers, but it would be better than nothing. At the very least, it would allow her to find a room in a student rent again.

She continued to push her breakfast around, nibbling at the corner from time to time as her parents left the kitchen.

Feeling stupid and used, she gave up with the toast and started to clear away as her mum appeared with the telephone. “Your brother wants to speak to you.”

Glaring at her mum she took the phone from her. “You haven’t told him, have you?”

Covering the mouthpiece her mother hissed in low tones, “Told him what exactly Lucy? I can’t tell him anything because you haven’t told us what’s gone wrong. All I know is that you’ve been stupid, that’s what you’ve said. Now, take the bloody phone and speak with Michael.”

Thrusting the phone towards Lucy, her mother stood by and watched as her daughter spoke.

“Hey, Mikey, haven’t spoken to you in ages,” she tried to sound brighter as she spoke with her brother.

“I know baby sister. Mum said you’ve moved back in, sucker!” he laughed.

“Not for long,” looking at her mum who was still watching, she chose her words carefully before wandering out of the kitchen “I’ll be gone as soon as I find another place.”

“Can’t you talk Luce?” He asked.

“Give me a minute…” she headed towards her room. “Right, I’m in my room now.” Sitting on her bed, she poured her heart out to her brother, despite the age difference and the fact that Michael was married with a family of his own, the brother and sister remained so very close, often sharing their secrets with each other. Lucy knew before her parents that Michael and his wife, Lisa, were expecting their first child.

“I couldn’t believe what I was hearing,” she cried down the phone, “a quick shag, that’s all I was.

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