Ship Ahoy! (A Cliffhanger Novel Book 3) by T.J. Middleton

Author:T.J. Middleton [Middleton, T.J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ipso Books
Published: 2017-02-16T00:00:00+00:00

I walked Em over the caravan, where she’d parked her car. Her little travelling bag was lying on the back seat, her sketch pad too. I took the car keys out and dangled the key in front of her.

‘You don’t know what this is, do you,’ I said. She shook her head.

‘It’s the key to this place,’ I said. ‘I own it.’

‘You never told me.’

‘Well, we don’t go up here do we? Danger. Unexploded Mines and all that. Here’

I put the key in the door, then realised I didn’t need it. Audrey had forced the lock back. I stepped in. A dirty little dishcloth lay all screwed up on the kitchenette drainer that Audrey must have used the three days she was here. Well, that made a change. Em followed me in, bumped her head on the row of mugs, as she sidled past me, into the seating area. She stretched her arms out.

‘It’s bigger than you think. Lighter too.’

‘Isn’t it? I used to come here a lot in the old days,’ I said, ‘trying to get away from it all. There’s the grass and the view of the sea, everything laid out nice and peaceful, like just for you. At night Alan Sparrow’s sheep used to come round, scratch their backsides. Felt like a high tide had come and floated us off.’

‘Us?’

‘The caravan and me. Look, don’t go back to your mum. Stay here. Fresh milk in the morning from the farm. Eggs too. I’ll bring some gas up, make the sure the heater and cooker work. You could paint lovely up here.’

‘I thought you wanted me slashing down in the bungalow.’

‘That too. I put it up in the gallery, you know, the one you already done. Some old fart nearly parted with a thousand pounds.’

‘Al!’

‘I know. Clever wasn’t it. I reckon we get them all out, spend an afternoon with a nice bottle of vino mutilating them all. Have a whole gallery of them. We could make a fortune.’

‘You great ninny, ’ she said, turning back, staring out the window, her fingers playing on the Formica table top. ‘Though it does make a sort of sense, I suppose.’

‘So does this.’ I came up behind her, put my arms around her, rested my head on her neck. She was magic really, Miss Prosser. She pulled my hands apart, gentle, but firm.

‘Not now Al. Maybe when it’s all over, but not now. Last night was like she’d never gone away for you. I could feel it, in that room, in bed. You weren’t lying next to me. You were lying next to her.’

I couldn’t say nothing

‘Maybe it’ll wash away, maybe it won’t. I don’t know. I don’t think you do either.’

‘I do know Em. Course I know.’

‘She’s been there for most of your life, me, I’m the new kid on the block. Mum was right. I shouldn’t be with you really. But there’s something about you, I can’t let go of. First time I saw you, head down, working on

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