THE GIFT by Brittany Hope

Author:Brittany Hope
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2014-02-03T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

Paris was magical. Jagger had replaced her original reservations at a fairly inexpensive hostel with reservations for a grand suite in an old hotel that looked like something out of the movies. Everything was so decadent and richly done, that she felt like she was in a fairy tale. They visited museums and fine restaurants by day, traveling through the Louvre and cuddling on benches in open French markets. They saw the Arc de Triomphe and the Eiffel Tower, taking funny pics of her squishing them between her fingers at a distance.

At night, they ate French pastries and drank wine, just chatting and enjoying one another’s company. She learned all about how Jagger had grown up in a wealthy family and had inherited everything when his parents passed away within a year of one another. His father had died suddenly of heart failure and his mother’s health just seemed to slowly deteriorate without explanation until she finally succumbed to death. Many claimed she died of a broken heart, but Jagger said the autopsy revealed she had been slowly poisoned and further investigation revealed she had done it to herself, not wanting to be here without her husband.

“How horrible for her and for you!” Amanda exclaimed.

“My parents married young. My father was all she had ever known as the center of her life. She loved us children and was a good mother, but my father was the most important thing in her life. She lived for him and when he was gone, she saw no reason to remain. My sister and I were grown and off doing our own thing by then,” he said.

“And your sister? Where is she now?” Amanda asked.

“Off in some third world country, no doubt. She is a physician with the Doctors Without Borders group. I never know where she is from one month to the next until I get a postcard. Usually by the time it makes it out of whatever remote location she is, she is already back home again. When she is home, she doesn’t live far from me and checks on me quite often. She has been a good sister, especially in recent years,” he said.

“Why in recent years?” Amanda asked, wondered if this something he kept dark about himself was the thing that made her wonder about what was happening between them.

“Nothing we want to discuss over crepes and wine,” he told her with a smile, taking another bite from his plate and smiling happily at her. Amanda didn’t push. He would tell her if he felt there was a need for her to know. In the meantime, she would do her best not to assume the worst. Still, her curiosity was peaked.

Back at the hotel, they climbed between the luxurious sheets, cuddling together as they kissed lazily beneath the covers on the large four poster bed of their suite. Amanda felt the familiar burn of skin that felt like it was on fire each time he touched her. Every touch

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