Rome is Where the Heart is: An uplifting romantic read, perfect to escape with (From Italy with Love Book 1) by Tilly Tennant

Author:Tilly Tennant [Tennant, Tilly]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781786811165
Publisher: Bookouture
Published: 2017-03-08T18:30:00+00:00

Fifteen minutes had passed and Kate was growing increasingly anxious as Jamie failed to return. The waiter cleared their plates and returned with coffee for Kate. She’d ordered it mainly to stall the dessert menu, or even the bill, neither of which she wanted while Jamie was still missing. Perhaps fifteen minutes wasn’t that long though; she’d had much longer conversations than that with the owner of her local shop while popping in for a loaf, so maybe she was overreacting.

But then fifteen minutes turned into half an hour and still no Jamie. She pulled her phone from her bag and sent him a text. There was no reply. After another minute of procrastination she decided to phone him, but it rang out. She drained the last of her coffee and looked hopelessly towards the door of the restaurant.

Come on, Jamie, where the hell are you?

‘Would you like anything else?’ The waiter’s voice came from behind her. She spun around, almost losing her balance on the chair.

‘No thank you.’

He took her coffee cup without a word. She dialled Jamie’s number again. Still no reply. Pushing her chair away from the table, she got up, deciding to go and peek out of the door to see if he was anywhere to be seen.

‘Madam, you have not paid the bill!’ The waiter was there again, a slip of paper on a tiny tray in his hand.

‘Oh. . . I’m not leaving. . . I’m just looking to see where my friend is. . .’

The waiter stared at her, and it was obvious that it looked very much like she was trying to leave without paying. She took the tray from him and scanned the total with a sharp intake of breath before depositing the right amount of euros into his hand.

‘Grazie,’ he said.

Kate nodded and headed out into the evening air. Whether Jamie wanted to or not, there was no coming back in now. If he wanted to continue the meal, they’d have to go elsewhere. But as she searched the street, there was no sign of him.

‘Bloody typical,’ she muttered.

She’d been an idiot. Jamie was quite obviously having an affair with Pietro, despite what he’d told her, and he was obviously with him now. She’d fallen for the same bloody con twice, and twice she’d ended up abandoned to pay for both their dinners. She didn’t think he’d done it on purpose, but she did think it was an almighty piss-take to leave her alone in a restaurant again when they were supposed to be having dinner together. If he couldn’t control his libido then perhaps he shouldn’t be asking people to come to dinner with him; perhaps he ought to just hang around Trattoria da Luigi like a lovesick puppy so that he’d be on tap whenever Pietro called him.

She stamped her feet like a petulant child, a growing feeling of annoyance coming over her. What she wanted to do was give him a piece of her mind. It was tempting to phone again and leave a message to do just that.

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