Sunshine and Sweet Peas in Nightingale Square by Heidi Swain

Author:Heidi Swain
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-05-31T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 18

I couldn’t vouch for anyone else in the Square, but I didn’t get an awful lot of sleep that night. I lay awake, my mind playing over the evening in minute detail. I was shocked that we now had a Wentworth descendant living in Prosperous Place, but I was determined that my agitated state was more to do with the fact that the house had been saved, rather than the fact that there was a handsome prince at the helm.

The thrilling turn of events really were fairy-tale-tastic but I had enough common sense, and still harboured enough heartache, to know that there was a possibility that the ending might not turn out quite as happily as we all hoped it would.

‘So,’ said Heather, the next morning as we all set back off to Prosperous Place to retrieve Harold’s scooter and discover what Luke had in mind for me and my neighbours, ‘this is all a bit of a turn up for the books, isn’t it?’

‘Just a bit,’ laughed Lisa, scooping little Molly up into her arms and falling into step, while John pushed Archie along in his buggy. ‘And it’s all down to you, Kate,’ she beamed.

‘And me,’ butted in Mark, who was obviously eavesdropping with abandon.

‘Yes,’ Lisa conceded, ‘and you, Mark. I’m sure it was your rugged good looks and wild ways with the sourdough that really convinced Luke that this was the place he needed to be.’

‘Are you being sarcastic by any chance?’ he asked.

‘As if,’ laughed Heather. ‘Lisa’s not the sarcastic kind and I’m sure you had just as much to do with capturing Luke’s imagination as Kate did, Mark.’

‘What are you all wittering on about?’ I frowned. ‘This is nothing to do with me. Luke is here to reclaim what’s left of the Wentworth legacy.’

‘His ancestors have called him home,’ added Neil.

‘Exactly,’ I earnestly agreed, before I realised he was in on the act and teasing me as well. ‘His being here has nothing to do with me,’ I hastily reiterated.

‘But we reckon he could be the one,’ said Heather, plucking at my sleeve just as Lisa had done the night before.

‘The one?’

‘The one to reawaken your heart, Kate,’ she said dreamily. ‘He might not be here because of you, but he’s here for you.’

‘He’s the one who can chop his way through to the tower you’ve imprisoned yourself in,’ added Lisa, ‘and, after much kissing and canoodling, free you from it.’

‘You’re mad,’ I told them both, striding ahead. ‘You’ve both lost the plot.’

‘No, we haven’t,’ Lisa called after me. ‘We’re just trying to get on board and see things from your perspective.’

‘No,’ I said, stopping dead so the pair of them almost fell into the back of me. ‘You’re not. If you were doing that you’d realise there is no tower, there are no self-imposed restrictions on my heart because it is irrevocably broken. Its only purpose is to measure time.’

‘And you’re still sticking to that crazy idea, are you?’ said Lisa, lowering Molly to the ground and encouraging her to use her own legs for the final few steps.

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