The Only Way Is Up: An absolutely hilarious and feel-good romantic comedy by Heidi Stephens

Author:Heidi Stephens [Stephens, Heidi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Headline
Published: 2022-11-24T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE

Tom sat on the sofa in front of the fire, Henry asleep next to him with his jaw hanging open and his pink tongue lolling out of one side. He sipped his coffee, which tasted as bitter as his cold, widowed, miserable heart. He’d been stalking Daisy online all weekend, wanting reassurance that she was fine and happy and not lying at the bottom of some crevasse. Served him right for being nosy, because instead he found photos of her and Christian sharing an intimate beer in the mountains, then laughing together as Christian fell over in the snow.

He scrolled back to the top and read the story again. The headline alone made him feel nauseous:

SNOW In Love – Daisy and Christian Snuggle Up on the Slopes.

Why had she lied to him? He’d asked her outright at Justin’s Pig in a Blanket – ‘Is your fiancé going?’ ‘No, he’s not.’ That was just three days ago, and nothing in her WhatsApps since had mentioned anything about Christian being there. In fact, she’d explicitly said she was skiing alone yesterday.

He kept reading, every line feeling like a gut punch.

Smashing all those rumours that their surprise engagement was about to double fault after THAT tumble at the NTAs, 39-year-old TV treasure Daisy Crawford and her 33-year-old tennis toyboy Christian Walker were smitten in mittens as they enjoyed a pre-Christmas cosy ski trip for two in an exclusive Austrian mountain resort. But it was tennis ace Christian falling head over heels this time, as queen of the slopes Daisy provided hands-on support for the snowsports novice.

Underneath were half a dozen pictures, each with a caption explaining exactly what was happening in case you were so extraordinarily stupid you needed someone to spell it out – Here’s Daisy laughing with Christian . . . Here’s Daisy helping Christian up from the snow, because he has fallen over . . . Look at them laughing, ha ha! Honestly, what was the readership age for this shit?

He paused again at a further sub-heading halfway down and rubbed his hands across his tired face. ‘Home Alone for the Heartbreak Headmaster’.

Meanwhile back in the UK, Daisy’s hunky headmaster is rumoured to be nursing a broken heart after developing a close relationship with the TV star. According to a source close to the couple, they’ve shared a kiss or two in his cosy Cotswold kitchen at £14,000-a-year Shipton House School, but now he’s home alone while Daisy frolics in the snow with fit fiancé Christian.

The paragraph was accompanied by a picture of him from the school website. It had been taken four years ago, after Tessa had suggested shunning boring, formal portraits in favour of more casual shots of the staff in their classrooms, perching on desks or leaning against colourful bookshelves. She thought it made the school look more like a family and less like an institution. So the picture was of Tom in an open-necked plaid shirt, his hair a little ruffled and untidy, crouching down in front of the fireplace in his office with his arms around Henry.

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