The Greek Secret She Carries by Pippa Roscoe

Author:Pippa Roscoe
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2021-09-13T18:23:12+00:00

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Summer followed Theron as he led her down a hallway and through a door to the garden that had become devastatingly overgrown. In a strange way it reminded her of the roses around Sleeping Beauty’s castle.

The evening air was surprisingly warm and the sky was a blanket of stars, shockingly bright and clear. The sight of it burned away some of her anger, but not enough. She could still feel it roiling, barely a millimetre beneath the surface. She hated it. She wasn’t this person. She was practical, not emotional. Logical, not irrational. But ever since her mother’s diagnosis, ever since the discovery of her father’s identity, ever since Theron, she’d been behaving completely out of character.

She inhaled the scent of honeysuckle and frowned. She’d not seen the beautiful fragrant plant out here. In the dark, Theron seemed to be looking around.

‘Neighbours are quite far away?’

‘Yes. Why?’ she asked, very confused now.

‘Good. No one will hear you.’

‘You get how that sounds, right?’ she asked, unsure whether to laugh or back away.

He looked at her in all seriousness and then a smile broke out across his face, lighting his eyes and making him look his age for the first time since she’d met him. ‘Yes. That’s the point. You are going to scream.’

‘Okay, enough with the psycho talk,’ she said, turning back, before he caught her arm to stop her.

‘No. I’m serious. All this anger. You’re going to scream it out.’

Summer stared up at him, finally understanding what he wanted. ‘I don’t think—’

Theron sighed. ‘That’s the point. You do think. You think far too much. Screaming? It’s visceral, it comes from here,’ he said, pressing his hand to her diaphragm, just above the round of her stomach. There was a slight pause, a flare in his eyes, before he masked it. ‘You need to let it out because it’s damaging. So, scream.’

Summer was so tempted. She could imagine it. How it might feel to release all the emotions bottled up inside her. But she was embarrassed. She’d sound stupid, she’d probably get it wrong, and she’d look—

Every thought stopped as a thunderous bellow cut through the night sky. She turned to Theron, eyes wide and shocked.

‘That’s how you do it. Your turn.’

She frowned, still unsure.

‘Hold on,’ he said, placing his hands over his ears as if he understood her concern, as silly as it might be. ‘Go.’

She huffed out a laugh, but he didn’t move, just waited for her to get on and do it. Finally, she took a deep breath, looked out across the mass of brambles and stars...and screamed.

She winced through the first awkward second or two, but then it rushed out of her, gaining power and volume just at the end.

‘Naí. Good. Again,’ Theron commanded.

Her heart pounding and the pressure in her head and chest beginning to flow, she screamed again, the sound, the anger, the tension, the constant fear she’d been holding in, all purged from her body in one long howl. She nearly choked when she heard Theron join her.

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