The Secrets of Clover Castle by Martin Holly

Author:Martin, Holly
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-08-10T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

Cameron had never seen anyone go as white as Milly had up in the portrait gallery. He had thought she was going to pass out. He’d quickly brought her back down to the kitchen and made her eat her lunch and she’d not said another word since.

She was looking a lot better now, the colour had returned to her cheeks. She had finished every bite of the salad and was happily sitting opposite him reading a newspaper. Well, she was going through the motions as if she was reading it, but he strongly suspected she hadn’t read a single word.

He was dying to look at the cameo that was sitting at the end of the table, but he hadn’t dared. He figured from her reaction it was quite similar to the one in the painting but there were hundreds of blue cameos out there, they had been hugely popular, especially in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. There was no way that the cameo in Milly’s box was the exact same one. He hadn’t seen many cameos in his life but the ones he had seen all looked very similar.

The silence between them was unbearable. They had sat in silence many times since she had arrived but it had never felt like this.

He stood up and she looked up at him warily.

‘I need to get some groceries from the village, did you want anything?’

She shook her head. ‘No, I’m fine thank you.’

‘Right.’ Cameron felt awkward and he didn’t know why.

He stepped back, taking his time moving Milly’s shoes to the side of the room, hoping that she would say something to alleviate this weird feeling between them, but she didn’t. He walked out, determined to bring her back a gift, anything that would bring back her normal smile again.

He walked into the village, it was another gorgeously hot day. Preparations for the Summer Solstice play seemed to be underway on the village green. There was bunting being hung from the trees and tiny fairy lights were being strewn from the branches. There was a sense of excitement among the villagers, everyone was getting involved. Milly seemed to want to be a part of it as well, she had even been talking about making some Solstice cookies when she had returned from the village the day before.

A week ago, he would have wanted no part in these celebrations. He liked being anti-social, it suited him fine. But now … everything seemed better, he was happier than he had been in a long time. He still didn’t want to make an idiot of himself in front of the whole village but he would at least come down and watch the festivities with Milly.

As he strolled over to the mini supermarket he spotted Lavender, weighed down with her heavy bags on the way back from the shop.

Loath as he was to hear more mystic predictions about his life, he wasn’t going to let her struggle.

‘Here, let me help you,’ Cameron said, hurrying over and taking the bags.

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