Nothing Ventured by Douglas Anne

Author:Douglas, Anne [Douglas, Anne]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Edinburgh, Chick-Lit, Fiction, Romance, Historical, Scottish, Women's Fiction
ISBN: 9781780107066
Publisher: Severn House Digital
Published: 2015-12-01T00:00:00+00:00

‘To hell with my temperature! Tell me what’s happened, Isla.’

She swallowed, looked away, looked back and gave a slight shrug.

‘Grant has given me up, that’s all. That’s all that’s happened.’

‘Isla, no!’ Mark’s eyes were so large on her face, so filled with sympathy, that she had to look away again. She resolutely shook down her thermometer.

‘Open wide, Mark! We must stick to routine, even if you’ll soon be away. Doctor Revie is coming to see you at eleven o’clock this morning; he might give you the all-clear to go. But there is a proviso.’

‘Never mind about me, Isla; just tell me—’

‘No, you must listen, Mark, it’s important. The doctors think you are much better, but there’s no guarantee that away from here the symptoms won’t return.’

‘I’m aware of that, I’m prepared,’ he said impatiently. ‘But I’m well at present and I want to get home. I can’t stay here for ever. Now, will you tell me why Doctor Revie has done … what you say he has. I mean, why should he? I’d have said he did care for you very much. Just to see you together—’

‘All moonshine, whatever you saw, Mark. Didn’t mean anything. He loved being with me, he said, I was a very attractive girl, we had some good times … only we always knew, didn’t we, it wasn’t permanent? But we could still be friends, couldn’t we?’

At the memory of the words, Isla’s face twisted and Mark grasped her hand.

‘How could he hurt you like that?’ he murmured. ‘How could he? He must have known how you felt about him.’

‘Didn’t want it, did he? Didn’t want what I felt about him. But I am never going to be a friend of Grant Revie’s, and he doesn’t really want that either.’

‘What the hell does he want?’

She paused, wondering whether to tell Mark of her thoughts about Grant and Miss Lorne, but decided against it. No need to go into something she didn’t know for certain, even if she was sure in her own mind that it was so.

‘Not me, anyway,’ she said at last. ‘But he can be sure I’m not staying around to see him every day. Not when I feel so bad, Mark – as though I’ve cheapened myself for wanting him when he doesn’t want me. And everyone will be looking at me—’

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