The Little Shop of Afternoon Delights by Sarah Lefebve

Author:Sarah Lefebve
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780008125981
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2014-11-05T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

The weekend passed unexceptionally. Anna had half hoped Tex would ring her but she didn’t hear a word from him. Jamie had emailed her with the details of her client for Monday and hadn’t mentioned anything about Friday. Perhaps Tex hadn’t told him.

Mark had tried to coax her to come to the pub with him and Luke for Sunday lunch but Anna had declined. She was having a hard time just looking at Mark. Every time she saw him, images of those photos came flooding back.

Luke came out to the garden where she was picking at a few weeds, just really as a diversional exercise, anything to keep her away from Mark.

‘Are you staying here then?’ Luke asked, sitting himself down on the edge of the raised flowerbed.

‘I think so. The garden could do with a tidy up.’

‘Looks all right to me.’

Anna sat back on her heels and brushed her gloved hands together. ‘You go with your dad, it will be nice for you two to have some time alone.’ She regarded Luke’s raised eyebrows. ‘Unless, of course, you’d rather I came. If you don’t want to be on your own, that is.’

‘No, I’m fine, I want to go. Just thought it would be nice if we all went.’ Luke got to his feet.

‘Sorry,’ replied Anna, looking apologetically at him.

‘It’s okay, don’t worry about it.’ He bent down and kissed her on the cheek. ‘See you later.’

It had been a long day, longer than Anna had expected. Her Monday client, the German family, had wanted to be shown around Brighton and the surrounding areas to see where they would like to base themselves. A tour of where the schools were in relation to desirable residential areas had also been on the agenda, together with a visit to the seafront and walk along the pier. Nevertheless, it had been a successful day, and Anna was pleased that they had appeared genuinely grateful for her help.

Heading back home, Anna dashed into the local Tesco Express, emerging a few minutes later with a can of energy drink in one hand and a bar of chocolate in the other. Naughty but nice, she smiled to herself as she wandered up towards the station. She had twenty minutes to kill before her train got in, plenty of time to indulge herself. What first? Drink or chocolate?

‘I hope you’re not really gonna eat or drink any of that stuff.’

Anna looked up and there was Tex leaning against the side of his 4X4, his arms folded and a lazy smile on his mouth.

‘It really isn’t part of a healthy diet,’ he added.

Anna eyed him sceptically, not answering immediately. Her heart was doing that skippy thing again and her stomach suddenly didn’t feel it could take any food. She wished she could think of a clever or funny answer but her mind seemed to have frozen as well.

Tex eased himself from his resting point and walked over to her, standing well within her personal space. Slowly, he

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