Snowflakes Over Moondance Cottage by Rosie Green

Author:Rosie Green [Green, Rosie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-11-14T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO

I wake in the early hours - and immediately, thoughts of Seb tumble into my head.

His gentle hands bathing my knees. Watching him as he bowed his head to the task, and wanting to run my hands through his hair. My heart soaring when he pulled me close, my lips yearning for his, and the devastation I felt when he very deliberately put a distance between us.

My heart twists, recalling how dismayed he was when he realised it was Dad who’d put up my wonky shelves. I could tell he was genuinely gutted that his innocent remarks had caused me grief. I stare up at the ceiling in the darkness. Seb is a hundred times the man I thought he was when I first met him. It just goes to show that you shouldn’t judge someone until you really know them. Life’s challenges affect us all, turning us from time to time into darker versions of ourselves. And it’s clear Seb is wrestling with challenges of his own.

In just a few weeks from now, he will have finished work on Moondance Cottage and what then? Panic flutters in my chest. He lives twenty miles away. I’m hardly likely to bump into him in the village. I’ll probably never see him again.

Lying there in the dark, a feeling of hopelessness surges through me.

I swore I’d keep my heart safe. But Seb has walked right in with his magnetic presence, heart-stopping smile and dry humour, and stolen it away . . .

Turning over, I bash the pillow and hug it to me. I’m going to have to make an effort to stay out of his way, and that will be so hard. Even now, I’m longing to see him again.

Burying my face in the pillow, I let out a muffled groan of frustration.

Christmas was always going to be a challenge this year. But now, thanks to being heart-broken over Seb, it’s going to be a hundred times worse . . .

*****

When I wake in daylight, my firm resolution to give Seb a wide berth appears to have vanished along with the night.

Despite the fact that I know it’s useless, my stupid heart is beating faster as I nip in the shower, my mind running through the contents of my wardrobe. Seb said he’d be putting in a few hours at Moondance Cottage first thing before going off to meet his mum and sister. Not that my getting ready this morning at the speed of light has anything at all to do with that fact. No, of course not. I just need to get there quickly to make as many baubles as I can today . . .

I’m kidding myself, of course.

The truth is, the thought of going over to the studio today without the possibility of seeing him - even just a glimpse from afar - casts a gloomy shadow over the day, despite the winter sunshine that’s glinting beyond the window. Thinking of him and his sister taking their mum Christmas shopping gives me a warm glow inside.

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