Romance: “Broken Heart” A Young Adult and Adult Romance Novella by Morris Fenris

Author:Morris Fenris
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Changing Culture Publications
Published: 2014-08-25T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

The next day was a beautiful. Gillian loved days like these: cold but sunny, lovely for putting on your thick winter woollies and going for a walk. If she had the energy that is. She’d been at the orphanage since 5:00 a.m. preparing for Geoffrey who’d promised to help her take the Christmas ornaments out of the attic cupboards so that she and the children could give them a good clean before the Christmas tree was delivered on the weekend. The children were so excited. Gillian had to force the older ones off to school with the promise that she wouldn’t start on them till after dinner that evening. Kevin also said he would stop by on his way to the office but it was already 9:00 a.m. and neither of them had shown up. As Gillian went through the papers on her desk, she heard the front door open. She knew it was Geoffrey as soon as she heard the deep bass voice.

What’s with him, she thought, he sounds like he’s in a good mood.

The office door opened and Geoffrey put his hand around the door. He was holding one of those delicious coffee that Gillian loved, from the little shop on the corner. “Sorry I’m late. Is it safe to come in?”

“Come on in you silly lump.” She called. “Especially if that coffee is for me.”

Geoffrey entered the office and put the coffee on the desk.

“Of course, who else would it be for?”

He sat down opposite Gillian as she greedily took the lid off the steaming coffee. She sat back in her chair and savored the beautiful concoction.

“Ah, lovely,” she crooned almost to herself. “You sound in a rather chirpy mood this morning. Something good happened, maybe?”

“No, nothing in particular. Life is good and all that.” Geoffrey tried to sound nonchalant.

Gillian put the coffee down and leaned over the desk towards him.

“Come on you fibber, tell me all about it.” Gillian wasn’t letting this one go.

Geoffrey couldn’t help himself; he felt his cheeks getting hotter as he blushed.

“Oh my goodness,” said Gillian as she sat upright. “You wily, old fox you. It’s a she, isn’t it?”

Geoffrey shuffled in his chair.

“It might be. Though I don’t see what business it is of yours, Miss nosey Parker.”

Gillian suddenly looked less happy.

“Oh but... Why didn’t you tell me you were dating someone? I mean I wouldn’t have thrown my mother at you if I had....” She stopped, suddenly realizing what she had said.

“You threw your mother at me?” Geoffrey said with eyebrows raised. “What do you mean? Why would you do that?”

“Well, Lorna and me, we -” Geoffrey cut her short

“Lorna and I,” he corrected her, always a stickler for the correct language.

Gillian gave him a side-ways look.

“Lorna and I,” she emphasized the I. “Well, we thought that as the both of you were, shall we say at a loose end, it would be nice to sort of bring you together. And you did say she had something about her.”

“I’m assuming your mother knew nothing of this.

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