Sparks Fly by Emily Harvale

Author:Emily Harvale [Harvale, Emily]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781909917491
Publisher: Crescent Gate Publishing
Published: 2019-10-22T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

Cat changed her clothes at least eight times before she finally decided on jeans, a pale green cotton T-shirt and a matching green and white striped linen over shirt with a high collar. It was still raining on Friday morning so she was wearing boots and also a lightweight jacket as she and Kyra walked into the Merriment Bay WWII Museum.

'Are you sure I look OK?'

Kyra grinned. 'What would you do now if I said you didn't? Turn and run home to Devon Villa and change your clothes for the sixty-fifth time? You look gorgeous, Mum. You always do.'

'I don't think I've ever looked gorgeous in my life, sweetheart. But thank you for saying that.'

'Oh. Lucas and Marcus are here. Hey, you two.' Kyra waved at them and they smiled back.

'Hey, yourself. Hey, Miss Devon. I'm Lucas. I haven't had the pleasure.' He shoved a lock of blond waves behind one ear.

Cat rolled her eyes. 'It's Cat, Lucas. Miss Devon makes me sound like a school teacher or something. And no. But you nearly did when my daughter came home very drunk on Saturday night. Although it might not have been a pleasure.'

He grinned. 'None of my teachers looked like you, Cat.' He emphasized her name as he looked her up and down. 'And yeah. Sorry about that. We all had a few too many. No harm done though. Amias made sure of that.'

Amias appeared from nowhere and gave him a playful slap on the arm and a reprimanding look.

'Cat's Kyra's mum, remember that.'

Lucas grinned all the more. 'Hey. Enough said. I get it. The lady's off limits.'

Something was going on but Cat wasn't quite sure what. She smiled at the other blond young man. A paler, thinner version of Lucas.

'Hi. You must be Marcus.'

'Hey.' He gave her a sheepish smile and glanced at Kyra who was showing something to Lucas on her phone. 'Yeah. I'm the cousin.'

'Kyra tells me you're off to Oxford University next week to study Mathematics and Computer Science at Balliol. That's impressive.'

He shrugged. 'It's what I'm good at.'

'You must be very good to get in there. They don't take just anyone from what I hear. Not that I know much about Oxford. Your parents must be extremely proud.'

He smiled. 'They are. Even Granddad is. At least he says he is.'

Amias placed a hand on Marcus' shoulder. 'Everyone is proud of you, Marcus. And Maths and Computers aren't all you're good at. You hold the highest score on our simulator for shooting down enemy planes.'

'That'll come in handy if there's another war,' Marcus said, in a self-deprecating tone. 'Although I'd probably be crap at the real thing.'

'You'd be brilliant, Marcus,' Lucas said. 'You're brilliant at everything.'

'No I'm not. But thanks.'

He hadn't taken his gaze from Kyra and when she turned, smiled and winked at him, he immediately brightened.

'And you're taking a year out, Lucas?' Cat was beginning to wish he was the one heading off to university and Marcus was the one staying behind.

'Yeah. I'll be working in my dad's firm for a few months.

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