Romance By The Book by Jo Victor

Author:Jo Victor [Victor, Jo]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781626393974
Publisher: Bold Strokes Books
Published: 2015-04-23T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

The next morning Alex staggered around cleaning up the kitchen, feeling cold and empty inside. She hadn’t been able to face doing any of it the night before, barely managing to even put away the food. She’d wanted to pitch all of it—pots and pans included. But food wasn’t something you wasted. It was life—it was sacred. Her mother and grandmother had taught her that.

Not that she could face the idea of eating much of anything at the moment. She made do with a piece of toast and a cup of tea for breakfast, trying not to think about the ugly things that Rosamund had said. She didn’t believe Rosamund, couldn’t believe her, however plausible she had sounded, so full of injured innocence as she hurled nasty accusations at Cam.

Alex knew better—Cam wasn’t like that. But Rosamund had caught her off balance, and the words had seeped into her like drops of poison, working their way through her, damaging everything they touched.

Worse, she kept seeing the way Cam had looked when she walked away—like something inside her had died. And that was Alex’s fault, not Rosamund’s. She shouldn’t have sent her away like that, no matter how upset and confused she felt.

Especially not after what she and Cam had shared. Those moments with Cam, touching her, kissing her, had completely overwhelmed her. Alex knew all the pretty phrases from poems and books, but nothing had prepared her for the way Cam’s tenderness had seared right through her, the way her own passion had blazed up in response.

But then Rosamund had turned up to spoil everything, like a bird of ill omen croaking death and disaster. And Alex had let her.

She had to make it right. She needed to find Cam, talk to her, figure out a way to fix things. But first she needed to pull herself together, somehow, and get Rosamund’s whispers out of her head. Maybe if she could fill her mind with something else, it would help her get a grip. She decided to try working for a while.

As she walked through the foyer, she noticed that the mail had piled up again. When she forced herself to go through it, she was rewarded with the discovery of another letter from Ian. He reported that he hadn’t been able to find anything else related to Artemisia in his great-aunt’s letters, which of course was disappointing. On the other hand, he had started writing down what he could recall of the stories she used to tell him, and he had enclosed the first installment.

It was quite a mixture. Some of the information didn’t appear to have much to do with Artemisia, or even with Janet, but Alex was glad he was apparently passing on his recollections unedited, since that seemed more likely to be effective in the long run at helping him remember as much as possible. And even the most apparently peripheral things might turn out to be important later, or at least spark her own thinking in helpful ways.

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