Season of Storms by Susanna Kearsley

Author:Susanna Kearsley [Kearsley, Susanna]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2011-03-14T21:20:04+00:00

The day the workmen finished with the fountains in the Peacock Pool he threw the largest party he had held for many years. The night was fair and warm, the stars were out, and everywhere his servants had strung coloured Chinese lanterns so the pool became a fairyland of light and music, clinking glass and wafting cigarette smoke and the lilting sound of laughter.

At the centre of it all was Celia, dressed in silver, luminous herself, so young and lovely that it set his heart to racing just to look at her. With drink in hand he stood and watched her, proudly.

He was aware of nothing else until Francesca, at his elbow, said, “She must be very good, that girl, to hold your interest for so long. The other women you brought home were lucky to be here a month.”

“She is not like the others.”

“No.” A thoughtful tone. “I think perhaps you love her.”

“Does that make you jealous?”

“Caro, to be jealous one must care, and I stopped caring years ago.” She raised her glass and toasted him. “Do hurry up and write your play, I simply long to read it.” And she laughed and walked away from him, along the bright reflecting pool that caught the dazzling spray of each stone peacock’s tail beneath the Chinese lanterns.

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