Reclaimed by the Ruthless Tycoon by Penny Jordan

Author:Penny Jordan [Jordan, Penny]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781488028991
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 1984-07-08T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

‘UMM, I LOVE that dress, and it really suits you,’ Meg commented when Kate stepped into the living room. It was Christmas Eve and Meg was waiting for Matt to come and collect her. Kate was due at the Christmas Eve party and had elected to drive herself knowing that Kevin, who had offered to call for her, could well be called out. She was wearing the same black Calvin Klein dress she had worn for Kevin’s dinner party, a double strand of pearls fastened with a pretty antique knot encircling a sapphire her only jewellery.

The sapphire picked out the deeply intense blue of her eyes, which already looked huge and dark in the pale framework of her face. ‘You’ve been losing weight,’ Meg told her almost accusatorily. ‘Kate, it’s none of my business, but…’ She broke off as the doorbell rang, and Matt’s entrance put an end to what she had been about to say. When she had waved them both off Kate felt weakly grateful for his opportune arrival. She wasn’t in the mood for discussing her feelings—even with Meg. Her eyes went to the fireplace where an ornate card painted on silk bore Lyla’s signature. She had also sent a very generous cheque, and ominously, for the first time since their break-up, her correspondence carried no reference to Jake. Did Lyla know that he was here in the Dales?

Gnawing thoughtfully on her bottom lip, Kate slipped on her fox jacket, and checking that she’d got her keys hurried out to her small car. She wasn’t going to let herself dwell on how empty the small building seemed; how un-Christmassy, despite the pretty tree she had spent all afternoon decorating. Her fridge was full of festive foods, she had collected the small turkey she would be sharing with Sarah tomorrow, and yet for all her preparations she was conscious of dreading the actual dawning of Christmas morning, dreading the entire Christmas period, in fact. But why? She had already endured two Christmasses without Jake, why should this third one affect her so deeply? Not simply because he was there, surely? No, it wasn’t that, she admitted on an inward sigh. It was because she had finally been forced to admit how much she still loved him. Her life wasn’t complete without him, and to spend Christmas, of all seasons, apart from him, seemed unbearably poignant.

Her car started first time, much to her relief. It had been giving her trouble recently, and she made a mental note to get it booked in for a service. The day had been cold, but bright, three frosty nights in succession hardening the ground to iron and coating the bare branches of the village trees with silver. Now the moon and stars were obliterated by cloud which must have drifted in during the late afternoon, and as she headed out of the village in the direction of the Crabtrees’ Kate realised that it had started to snow. A huge lump rose in

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