The Cottage at Plum Tree Bay by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781788631204
Publisher: Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Published: 2020-05-05T00:00:00+00:00

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Another week of the holidays had flown past and Catherine couldn’t believe that there was only one week left. She’d been swimming and reading and napping and the days had started to melt into one as they often did during the summer. Most mornings, after her swim, she played with Bob and Ginger, made lunch for her and her mother, then read for a few hours before taking a nap. It was bliss to be able to relax.

Most days, admittedly, her thoughts strayed to Mark and what he was doing, but something held her back from contacting him too often. She knew it was fear of being hurt, of liking him too much and of ending up wanting all the things she’d thought for so long that she couldn’t have. It had filled her mind that day after she’d visited Maggie and her new baby, when Mark had been there and she’d felt that intense connection between them. At that point, she’d felt as though things between them could go either way, as if they could continue as they were or dive into something deeper. The latter thought was the one that left her with doubts. Could she really open her heart to love and vulnerability?

This evening, Jamal had arranged a costume fitting for Beach Waves at the haberdasher’s shop, which was a fifteen minutes’ drive from Penhallow Sands. From outside it looked like a clothes shop, but as Catherine pushed the door and entered, the inside made her think of Aladdin’s Cave. Everywhere she looked, she saw rolls of material in all colours of the rainbow and everything in between. There were plastic containers piled up in the corners of the shop and they appeared to be filled with buttons and cotton, and at the rear of the shop, behind the counter, were two headless mannequins wearing tape measures around their necks. The smell of dyed fabrics and coffee permeated the air and her stomach rolled as she approached the counter.

‘Hello, there.’

The voice from behind her made Catherine jump and she turned to meet the grey eyes of a tall, thin woman with a blunt black bob and bright red lips. She was wearing an orange jumpsuit and gold platform boots that looked as though they had come right out of the seventies.

‘Hi. I’m here for a fitting.’

‘And your name is?’ The woman went around the counter and opened an A4 book then flicked to the middle.

‘Catherine Bromley.’

‘Ahhh… You’re with Jamal.’

‘Yes, that’s right.’

‘He’s out the back with Bradley and a very cute guy with a posh accent.’ She grinned at Catherine, revealing fixed braces on her top and bottom teeth.

‘Mark?’

‘Yes, that’s right. Follow me. I’m Libby, by the way.’

Catherine followed Libby to a curtain behind the counter that she slid aside, then they went through a short corridor and into a brightly lit back room. Jamal and Bradley were sitting on a maroon velvet sofa and they looked up as Catherine approached them.

‘I told you to get a lift with us.

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