The Guest House at Shingle Cove (The Sunrise Coast Series Book 4) by Elise Darcy

Author:Elise Darcy [Darcy, Elise]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penny Lane Press
Published: 2022-07-07T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 28

‘There’s something on your mind.’ It wasn’t a question.

Freya looked across the room at Jolene, working alone on a museum window display. Freya sighed, turning her attention to Tarek. She wasn’t about to repeat the conversation she’d just had with Jolene while having their morning break.

‘Tarek, there’s nothing on my mind apart from sorting out this display case – all right?’

Tarek pursed his lips and muttered, ‘All right, then.’

‘What was that?’

‘I said let’s get on with it, then.’

‘Fine.’

She gave him a sideways glance. He was helping her set up a new display case with some artefacts they had brought up from the storage vault. She had been paired with Tarek to work, even that day when they’d all come in to do overtime. She knew that it was her job, showing him how things were done at the museum. But there were people more qualified than her, who worked there full-time.

Freya glanced at the full-timers, who were talking amongst themselves as they worked. She was sure that her being paired up with Tarek for the next month hadn’t been the dean’s idea at all and had nothing to do with the fact that she had applied for that secondment. It was simply that the other women had nominated her because they didn’t want to be stuck with the newbie.

Freya didn’t want to be stuck with him either. On the other hand …

‘There’s definitely something on your mind.’

She rolled her eyes at Tarek. ‘Why do you say that? Is it because I’ve been less talkative that usual?’ Freya quipped. She was being sarcastic.

‘No, that’s not it.’

Tarek, Freya discovered, didn’t get English humour. Perhaps it was the fact that English was his second language. Or perhaps he didn’t get irony. Peculiarly, she found it rather endearing. She had discovered that with Tarek, what you saw was what you got.

She had barely been civil to Tarek – in the beginning. He had been no different, acting like a sulky teenager who didn’t want to be there. Although she kept up her frosty exterior most of the time, she’d shown a different side to herself at lunch. So had Tarek.

‘You labelled the miniature statue incorrectly,’ he said in a deadpan voice.

‘What!’ Freya looked at the little stone statue she’d just put in the display case with the wrong label. Her head still wasn’t in the game. ‘Oh, God.’ It wasn’t like her – and Tarek knew it.

Freya sighed. She was meant to be concentrating on work, but instead her attention kept wandering to Jolene. Tarek had caught her, not for the first time that day, staring Jolene’s way. What was consuming Freya’s thoughts was what her friend had said at coffee break. That Freya might have a half-sister. Could that really be true?

Was it possible that her dad had had an affair with a woman years ago, and they’d met regularly – not because they were still having an affair, but because they’d had a child together? Had bumping into this lady called

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