The Girl he Never Noticed by Lindsay Armstrong

Author:Lindsay Armstrong [Armstrong; Lindsay]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 978-1-4089-2578-2
Publisher: Harlequin (UK) Ltd
Published: 2011-06-11T16:00:00+00:00

Lying in bed that night, though, she wondered if it was that unexpected streak of kindness in him that she—loved? No—not that, surely? But it was something that drew her to him.

CHAPTER SIX

A MONTH after she’d started work at Yewarra, Liz had to concede that Cam Hillier had kept his promise.

It had been a hard-working but satisfying month. She’d settled into the cottage, which wasn’t far from the house and, although small, was comfortable, with its own fenced garden. It was not only comfortable but picturesque, with some lovely creepers smothering its white walls. There was also a double swing seat with a canopy in the garden that just invited you to relax on it.

Probably because of having lived in an apartment all her life Scout loved the garden, and Liz loved the fact that when she could work from the cottage, in an inglenook converted to a small office, she could keep an eye on Scout through the window.

It also gave Liz her own freedom. Although she sometimes accepted Mrs Preston’s invitation to eat up at the house, she more often cooked for herself and Scout. And when Cam was in residence and entertaining she had a place to retreat to.

At the same time—and she hadn’t thought it possible—Scout was weaving her way more and more into her heart. She tried to analyse why, and decided it had something to do with she herself being under much less stress and being able to spend much more time with Scout.

They’d got into the habit of Scout coming into her bed every morning, bringing her favourite doll, Jenny Penny.

One morning Scout said to Liz, ‘You’ve got me and I’ve got Jenny Penny. We’re lucky, Mummy!’

‘Sweetheart,’ Liz responded, giving her blue-eyed, curly-haired daughter half a hundred kisses—a game they played—‘I am so lucky to have you I can’t believe it sometimes!’

She had been aware that she’d been under discreet surveillance as she’d fitted into the job. Mrs Preston might be a motherly soul, and Bob might be a friendly bear of a man, but that hadn’t stopped them from monitoring her progress—especially where Archie was concerned.

It hadn’t annoyed her. It had made sense.

Mary had come up for a couple of weekends, and appeared satisfied that her daughter and granddaughter were in a good place. At the same time Liz had been happy to see that her mother was in high spirits—excited, and full of ideas for the costumes she was designing. Plus, Liz thought she’d detected that Mary might have a man in her life, from the odd things she’d let drop about how this or that had appealed to Martin.

But Liz’s enquiries had only sent her mother faintly pink at the same time as she shrugged noncommittally.

Mary had also met Cam a couple of times and been visibly impressed. Not that that was so surprising, Liz acknowledged. What was surprising—although Mary had always been intuitive—was her mother’s discreet summing up of the situation between her daughter and her daughter’s employer.

She knows, Liz thought with an inward tremor.

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