The One Saving Grace by Julie Houston

Author:Julie Houston [Houston, Julie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Head of Zeus
Published: 2018-01-08T05:00:00+00:00

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The journey back up to Yorkshire the following day was very different from Thursday’s journey down. We had fully intended to stay in Surrey until the Sunday, spending all day Saturday recovering from the excesses of the wedding before travelling back the following day. Nick had promised to take Sylvia and Colin to Gatwick Airport, where they were taking a flight to Barbados for what appeared to be a very long honeymoon. Judge Colin had friends in high places and also, seemingly, in warm places, and he and Sylvia had been given several weeks at a fellow judge’s holiday home as a wedding present.

We had all agreed that Liberty should be the one to give up her seat in the Westmoreland Express on the way back, and she’d happily packed her gear into her rucksack, ready to catch the train from Epsom up to London. She’d said it was a great opportunity to visit the Royal Observatory at Greenwich for her A level physics work and then meet up with Georgina, a school friend whose parents had moved down from Yorkshire to South London earlier that year. I’d spoken to Georgina’s mother, who I knew well, and who was more than happy to have Libby at such short notice – and Libby had arranged to meet her friend in Covent Garden, spend the night at her house and then catch a train back north the following day. We had to spend a lot of time online checking train times for the Sunday, as the service to Yorkshire seemed pretty erratic, and I tried to persuade Liberty that she’d be better just doing her Observatory visit and then catching a train later that evening to coincide with our arrival back in Midhope. She was adamant, however, that she wanted to stay the night, and Nick dropped her off at the station before continuing on to Gatwick with Sylvia and Colin.

One might reasonably have come to the conclusion that Anna Fitzgerald, now that she was back in the bosom of her family, would have spent the Saturday night after the wedding in Epsom at her old family home. Thank goodness she hadn’t. I really wouldn’t have known what to say to her over toast, bran flakes and coffee that morning. Once I’d recovered from the shock of her verbal attack on me, I’d gone back down to the hotel lounge to find Nick and tell him what I thought of his ex. How dare she have a go at me like that, especially when I was looking so rough? I’d have coped a lot better, I now realised, if I’d been looking my best – or had even had my shoes on so I could have at least looked down at her as she spewed out her venom. A regal look and a sardonic smile would have said a thousand words… but unfortunately, caught on the hop, pulling faces at myself in the mirror cannot be described as having a queenly bearing in anyone’s eyes.

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