Summer at Buttercup Beach: A gorgeously uplifting and heartwarming romance by Holly Martin

Author:Holly Martin [Martin, Holly]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781786812001
Publisher: Bookouture
Published: 2017-06-29T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

Freya turned round to see Rome standing there brandishing a letter and looking furious. To her surprise, he was clearly angry with her. Their hot, romantic evening suddenly seemed to be slipping away.

She stepped towards him. ‘What’s wrong? What’s happened?’

He thrust the letter towards her and then walked away across the room, digging out his phone as he started typing something furiously on it.

Freya watched him for a second then looked at the letter. Her heart sank as she realised it was from the glass studio in St Ives asking Rome for a reference for her.

‘I applied for this before I came back to work for you,’ Freya said, knowing it wouldn’t make any difference to his mood.

He held the phone up, clearly having looked up the job online. ‘This was why you wanted to leave Through the Looking Glass? I thought perhaps you wanted something that was bigger and better. But now I find out that you want to leave being a partner in your own glass studio to work in a different glass studio on a temporary six-month contract with a lot less pay.’

‘Rome, let me explain.’

‘So it wasn’t that you wanted a change in career, it wasn’t that you wanted more money, it really was that you just wanted to get away from me. What the hell did I do?’

‘It wasn’t you.’

Rome paced back across the floor, clearly not listening. ‘Am I really that awful to work for, I know I’m grumpy sometimes, is it that? Or is it that I’m boring, you find me so mind-numbingly dull that you can’t bear to be around me any more.’

Freya was horrified. ‘Rome, no, that isn’t it at all.’

‘You were happy to kiss me, you wanted to sleep with me, so obviously I couldn’t be too abhorrent for you. Or is it like some of the women on the island say: good at sex, not really good for much else. And you just thought you’d have a piece of that before you left?’

‘If you shut up for a second, I’ll tell you why I wanted to leave.’

‘So tell me?’

Freya sighed. She had never envisaged having the conversation like this. She had imagined that it would eventually happen over much more romantic circumstances. Maybe over a meal and a bottle of wine she would tell him that she loved him and she needed time away from him to finally get over him. And there was a tiny sliver of hope that he would then say it back. After the kiss that night, after their conversation about cuddling which was very obviously about making love, she had begun to think he did have feelings for her after all, that she hadn’t imagined those feelings over the last few days and weeks that had led up to that fateful night when she had stormed out on him. But now she had hurt him and the chance of a romantic night making love in this incredible room was gone.

She watched him standing

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