Return Engagement by Carole Mortimer

Author:Carole Mortimer
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Contemporary, Fiction, Romance, Adult, Historical, General
ISBN: 9780373116713
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 1992-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIX

'I DON'T have anywhere else to go,' Wolf told Cyn once they were back in the van. He was in the driving compartment beside her this time, having managed, with the aid of the crutches, to lever himself up there, the crutches now relegated to the back.

From anyone else a statement like this might have produced a sympathetic, even pitying response from Cyn. And it might have been totally deserved—if it were anyone else but Wolf. But she knew it was totally untrue; there were any number of places he could go to be looked after besides her cottage.

'You'll have to move,' he told her now mildly after glancing in the side-mirror. 'There's an ambulance trying to get parked behind us.'

Cyn had brought the van up outside the accident department so that it wasn't so far for Wolf to go, and she saw, after a brief glimpse in her own mirror, that he was right about the ambulance. 'OK, I'll move the van,' she told him grimly as she put the vehicle into gear. 'But I am not driving you back to my cottage!' she added forcefully.

She moved the van only a short distance away to the car park before parking there, turning in her seat to look at Wolf. He returned her gaze blandly now.

'I mean it, Wolf,' she told him tightly, unnerved by his calmness. 'You are not coming back to my cottage with me. I— I'll drive you to your mother's house, if you want to go there,' she offered with obvious reluctance. But even seeing Claudia and Barbara again was preferable to having Wolf at her cottage with her!

His mouth twisted as he obviously guessed her thoughts. 'That's very generous of you,' he drawled. 'And believe me, I know just how generous; you never did get along with my mother!'

'I got along with her just fine,' Cyn contradicted heatedly. 'She just didn't like me.'

'Was that any reason --? Never mind,' he rasped at Cyn's stubbornly unresponsive expression. 'It would upset my mother to see me like this,' he stated firmly.

From what she remembered of Claudia Thornton the other woman would enjoy nothing better than having Wolf in her manipulative clutches virtually immobile, and, as such, powerless to stop her machinations. Unless Claudia had changed—which Cyn very much doubted!

'She never really recovered from the stroke she had after Alex's death,'

Wolf continued grimly at Cyn's sceptical expression. 'She's had several minor ones since then. Another major one might kill her. And her initial response to seeing me like this might just cause one,' he added decisively.

Cyn hadn't even known of the first one. She couldn't imagine Claudia as being anything else but completely in command, of herself, and of her family. Short, her figure petite to say the least, Claudia gave the impression of delicacy—a totally misleading impression, as Cyn had found to her cost.

Claudia hadn't approved of Cyn for Wolf, although she had always been careful not to show that disapproval too strongly in front of

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