Red-Hot Lover by Sarah Holland

Author:Sarah Holland [Holland, Sarah]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Romance
Publisher: Harlequin HP
Published: 1998-07-29T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIX

JARED found rooms for them at The Grange. A big country house converted into a hotel, it stood on the outskirts of the town in private grounds. He got a suite for himself and Clara and a double room for Harrison. It cost him a very large sum of money. He apparently gave the previous occupants enough for a five-star luxury cruise in the Caribbean, but it was worth it to ensure he and Clara didn’t have to spend a night at the Manor.

It was dark as they drove to the hotel. Ten-thirty and they were both very tired. Although the rain had started late afternoon, it had come in intermittent showers. Now the storm was about to break. Distant thunder rippled ever closer. Heavy rain cascaded down, hurtling against the windows of the limousine like gunfire. The windscreen wipers worked overtime. Lightning flared in the troubled night sky.

Jared held Clara in his arms in companionable silence. It was cosy in the rear seats. She felt like a little girl again, before the tragedy of the fire had taken her parents from her… She thought of security and the shattering of it. They had that in common, she and Jared. Both had lost a safe haven at the tender age of eight and been forced to carve their own niche in a crazy world. But how had Jared lost his security? She still didn’t know the truth. All she knew was that it had something to do with that manor house. His true feelings towards it had been blindingly clear as he stood in front of it today. He was both frightened and angered by the sight of it. Most notably by the hallway. It was as though the very threshold of the house haunted him. Why?

Clara believed in fate. With every moment they spent here in Rhossana her belief grew stronger. It comforted her to think that way. If Susie’s accident had been an act of fate to bring Jared here, that meant that Susie would recover. It was only fate that she’d had the accident. That was all she could bear to believe, because if it wasn’t fate…

Shifting uneasily, Clara tried not to imagine the worst.

‘Darling?’ Jared murmured.

‘Just thinking about Susie.’ Her voice was husky. ‘I try not to even consider the possibility that she might die.’

‘Susie’s always been a fighter. She’ll pull through.’

‘Do you really think so?’

‘Life is too precious to her. She won’t just slip away into the dark without a struggle.’

Relief swamped her. ‘I’m so pleased you’re here, Jared. I don’t know how I’d cope with this if you weren’t.’

‘You know I’d never desert you. Or Susie.’

Tears blinded her briefly. Blinking them back, afraid to appear too emotional even though the strain on her over the last twenty-four hours had been enormous, Clara kissed him.

‘We’re too closely connected,’ Jared said against her lips. ‘All three of us. I know I’m not an orphan but I’ve always felt like one, and that makes the difference.’

‘I guess it does.

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