So Now You’re Back by Heidi Rice

Author:Heidi Rice [Rice, Heidi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Mills & Boon Publishers
Published: 2022-02-15T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

What was the point of having a crush on the live-in au pair if he was never where he was supposed to be?

Lizzie jogged across the low bridge in the Kyoto Garden in Holland Park. The Japanese waterfall glimmered in the sunshine while Lizzo blamed it on her juice in her headphones.

Piss off, peace and tranquility.

She marked time as a mum with a double buggy pushed past her on the brick path, then headed into the cool forested section of the park. Puffing now—a hangover from last night’s pizza blowout—she accelerated on the secluded track leading through the untamed grove of elms and weeping willows the half mile to the exit. The park had been quiet this morning, except for the odd nanny-and-toddler combo. School wasn’t out yet for the summer, but luckily she had no more college classes, having handed in her final assessment yesterday.

Any excitement at the prospect of having Trey all to herself during the daytime had been quashed in the past few days, though. The man had made himself noticeably scarce, disappearing after the school drop-off each day, only to reappear at four p.m. with Aldo in tow like the ultimate gooseberry. The burning curiosity to ask him where he’d gone was nothing compared to her irritation that he’d managed to avoid her. For three whole days.

She ran on the spot, waiting for the lights to change at Holland Park Avenue. Jogging across the road, she darted into Ladbroke Mews, running past the exclusive pastel-coloured cottages, her trainers hitting the cobblestones to the rhythm of Beyoncé’s ‘Single Ladies’. An oldie but a goodie when it came to girl-power mission statements.

Bolting out of the mews, her laboured breath sawing in her lungs, she ran past the palatial houses that stood in a row of Georgian grandeur around Ladbroke Square. She slowed as she approached their four-storey house, its grand portico matching the others in the terrace, as a tall, easily identifiable figure came down the street from the opposite direction. Her heartbeat galloped into her throat, and not just from the exertion of her morning jog.

Trey was back. She slowed to a walk, sucking in air so she wouldn’t be huffing and puffing like a hippopotamus when he spotted her.

It was four days now since their day out at the Serps, and either she was becoming paranoid or Trey had been avoiding her every day since. She hadn’t pushed it at first; he obviously had a job to do with Aldo—and as much as she might want to hang out with Trey, she hadn’t sunk so low as to want to play football in the park.

Unfortunately, she’d managed to miss him and Aldo before they left for school each morning. So she’d set her alarm last night, determined to catch him for morning coffee if it killed her. Pressing the snooze button had been a mistake, though, because she’d managed to snooze until nine o’clock.

But the jog had revitalised her and given her time to think. She tugged out her earbuds and turned off her music as she drew closer.

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