The Holiday Cottage by the Sea_An utterly gorgeous feel-good romantic comedy by Holly Martin

Author:Holly Martin
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781786814661
Publisher: Bookouture

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Aidan was waiting at the bottom of the drive for Tori, not wanting her to walk up the bumpy path in the dark on her own. The full moon was shining brightly, stars pin-pricking against a black velvet sky. It was warm, the heat of the day still lingering. The perfect night for picking the heartberries.

He hadn’t slept well that afternoon, his head too full of Tori Graham in her pretty strawberry pyjamas. It was funny, the pyjamas were not what he would class as typically sexy if he’d seen them in a shop, but there was something very sexy about Tori in them, lying in her bed, her hair in scarlet waves over the pillow. That photo had been so innocently taken but it had stirred in him so many emotions.

He saw the flickering torch light coming from Blossom Cottage and, as Tori rounded the corner, he couldn’t help but smile.

She was dressed in little denim shorts, her long legs disappearing into bright purple wellies. She was wearing a baggy red hoodie, her hair swept up into a high ponytail under a tweed flat cap, just like the one he had worn the first day they had met.

She grinned when she saw him waiting for her and then doffed her cap as she did a little bow.

‘My Lord.’

He laughed. ‘My Lady.’

She did a little twirl. ‘Will I pass muster? I saw the cap in the village and thought if I’m going to be a fruit farmer for a few weeks, then I needed the right uniform.’

God, she was so lovely.

‘You more than pass muster,’ Aidan said, softly.

He offered out his hand and she smiled and then took it.

‘How was your nap?’ he asked as they walked back up the drive towards the farm.

‘I had wonderful dreams,’ she said, looking up at him.

Aidan hoped those dreams were about him.

‘So, we’ve got time to look through your ideas for the advert. The lantern ceremony won’t be starting for a while yet.’

‘The what?’

‘Many of the villagers will bring lanterns and candles down to the field to help light it up for the heartberry-picking.’

‘You don’t have floodlights or something a bit more… modern to light the fields?’

‘Yes, of course but this is all part of the celebrations. It’s how it was done hundreds of years ago. So, we still do it today. Well, only for tonight, we have proper lighting for the rest of the time.’

‘Oh, that’s really sweet,’ Tori said. ‘And when does the naked dancing start?’

He laughed. ‘Any time you want.’

They walked in silence for a while as Tori looked up at the moon and the stars.

‘Are you going to Matthew’s memorial thing tomorrow?’ Tori asked.

‘Yes, I wasn’t sure if you were going, what with Melody and Isla not knowing about the two of you.’

‘They know now. Elliot kind of outed me this afternoon. Apparently Matthew talked about me a lot with him. I’m relieved more than anything. I’ve been wanting to tell them for a while and the longer I left it the harder it was.

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