Sealed with a Christmas Kiss by Rachael Lucas

Author:Rachael Lucas [Lucas, Rachael]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781447277774
Publisher: Pan Macmillan UK

She fired off a furious text to Emma, but it flashed back at her: ‘Message not sent – try again?’ She hit the screen in a temper. ‘Message not sent.’

‘Oh, bog OFF.’

Bloody, bloody island life. Banging her fist on the steering wheel, she swore a few times. Then, realizing there was nowhere to go but off the end of the island in a rowing boat, she turned the car around.

‘Shit!’

Foot to the floor, Kate hadn’t expected to drive around a bend and find the road blocked. But there sat a familiar pickup truck painted with the Duntarvie Estate colours, its back end open and what looked like half a tree sticking out.

‘Easy, tiger.’ It was Finn, of course. He swung round from behind a hedge, chainsaw in hand, sandy hair trapped under a ridiculous bearskin hat. On anyone else it would have looked insane, but he carried it off.

‘You’ve parked your bloody truck on the road. Any chance of getting it out of my way?’

‘Get you, Lady Muck.’ He gave her a shove, grinning. ‘It’ll be “get orf my land” next.’

Kate deflated slightly, her temper subsiding. He was right, she did sound like a bit of a cow. And he hadn’t done anything wrong, after all.

‘Sorry. It’s bloody Roddy.’

Finn shoved the chainsaw into the back of the pickup, slamming the back closed and locking it. ‘What’s he done?’

‘He proposed.’

‘Right. What an absolute git.’ Finn looked at her and winked. ‘And you’ve realized you made a mistake all that time ago, right?’

One drunken night Kate, like most of the women he met, had fallen for Finn’s easy charms. He was uncomplicated, funny, kind-hearted and easygoing, so it wasn’t exactly difficult. The next morning, when Kate realized she’d made a terrible mistake, Finn had taken it in his stride. He was a free spirit, and he’d swung off happily, probably heading out for dinner that night with some other woman. He seemed to have a never-ending supply of them.

‘Shut up, Finn.’ She wasn’t in the mood for his teasing.

‘This is serious. Not like you to be in such a strop, darlin’.’

Kate scowled at him.

‘I’m heading back to Kilmannan now for a bit of lunch. D’you fancy following me back and telling me what’s going on?’

‘I dunno. I’ll see how I feel when I get there.’ Kate was suddenly hit by a need to be alone, to have time to think.

Arriving in town, she was decided. Her expression clearly said it all to Finn as he swung out of the cab, having pulled in to park just in front of her on the side street that led down to the little row of shops.

‘Not in the mood?’

‘I need to think, Finn. Another time. But thanks.’ Shoving her keys into her bag, Kate turned, having decided just what she needed to do. Picking up a basket in the doorway of the Co-op, she grabbed two bags of tortilla chips, a multi-pack of dips, a packet of strawberry bootlaces, two microwave curries and an elephant-sized bar of Galaxy chocolate.

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