The Holiday by Kate Perry

Author:Kate Perry
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Destination Love Stories
Published: 2012-07-24T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

It was all Colin could do to keep the car on the road, he was so jittery.

Leilani sat next to him, calmly answering emails on her phone. How she could be so cool and collected, he had no idea. But then she didn't know what he was planning to do this weekend.

Mel would have called it a ballsy move. He figured he was either absolutely brilliant or completely daft.

She dropped her phone in her purse and turned to him. Taking his hand, she said, "Tell me about Bath."

"You know how it gets its name, I assume?"

"For the restorative baths the Victorians visited."

"Yes, but the town was a spa long before that, dating back to the Roman occupation. The Romans liked their creature comforts, but I suppose we all do. They built a town around the hot springs and dedicated it all to their goddess Minerva. Recently the largest hoard of Roman coins was found on a dig near the Roman Baths."

"It'd be exciting finding treasure like that."

That was how he felt about her. He cleared his throat. "We'll go to the Roman Baths of course, but as I understand Carolyn's created a bath of sorts on her property."

"Who's Carolyn?"

"My cousin. A number of years ago she bought a house on the outskirts of Bath and converted it to a bed and breakfast. It's apparently quite lovely."

"You've never been there?"

"I was a workaholic, remember?" And he'd never had anyone he'd wanted to take.

They arrived at Carolyn's guesthouse. Parking the car, Colin took the bags out of the boot as Leilani looked around. "It's beautiful here."

It was. Carolyn had picked a good property, nestled in the rolling hills and surrounded by lush greenery. "We're at the edge of an Area of Outstanding Beauty."

Grinning, she moved to help him carry one of the bags. "That sounds official."

"It's the official title for the Cotswolds, this range of hills. We're at the southern end, though Bath is situated in a valley." He closed the boot and nodded to the front door. "Shall we?"

"I keep expecting MacLeod to bound over and join us," Leilani said as they went up the cobbled walkway. "I've grown oddly attached to that dog."

"He is a loveable beast, isn't he?"

"It was nice of George to take him."

"Nice has nothing to do with it. George uses him to pick up women."

The front door burst open, and his cousin stood in the threshold beaming in an unholy manner. Carolyn was only a dozen years older than him, but she'd always looked like an upper-class British matron, even as a teenager. Her wardrobe of elegant but simple dark dresses didn't help. Even her hair was in the same pageboy it'd always been.

"Colin, you devil you. If I wasn't here to see it with my own eyes I'd never believe it." She lifted her face, waiting.

He kissed her proffered cheeks. "Carolyn, you look just as you always have."

She giggled, smoothing her hair. "You've always had a glib tongue, haven't you? Although not as glib as George.

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