The Surprise De Angelis Baby by Cathy Williams

Author:Cathy Williams
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2015-09-10T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

DELILAH GAZED UP at the building in front of her. It wasn’t one of those vast, impressive glass houses that broadcasted to the world that the worker bees inside were very important worker bees. By comparison this was a modest building, just three storeys high, a squat, square and rather old-fashioned red brick affair, away from the chaotic hustle and bustle of the city.

She didn’t want to be here, but she had had to jump through hoops to find the wretched place and now that she was standing in front of it she wasn’t going to retreat without seeing him.

Which didn’t mean that she wasn’t as nervous as a kitten.

In a sudden burst of anxiety she spun away from the building and headed to the nearest coffee shop, where she would try and rally her mental troops.

The heat of the Mediterranean sun seemed like a long, long time ago. Much longer than two months, which was when she had said farewell to the liner and to the friends she had made there.

Everything had been so chaotic.

Like a hurricane, Daniel had swept through them all and changed their lives in one way or another.

For Christine and Gerry, after what she had privately admitted must have been a horrible, horrible shock to the system, because they had both viewed the money he had flung down on the table as a hostile takeover, things had actually turned out okay.

Faced with the brutal facts of their financial situation, they had been forced to get their heads out of the sand and abandon their optimism that the tide was going to change—that they just needed a couple of bumper seasons, that hordes of culture vultures were waiting out there to book passages on their once-in-a-lifetime cruise.

And, Gerry had told her, Daniel’s offer had been pretty fair—which had somewhat eroded Delilah’s assumption that Daniel’s sole interest had been to plunder and take for the cheapest possible price.

Which, of course, didn’t excuse the fact that he had used her and lied to her.

Most the crew were to be re-employed, back on the liner, with six months of paid leave while the cruise ship was being renovated, and their salaries were now so inflated that they were overjoyed at the change of ownership. Stan, as Daniel had told her, had been over the moon at the prospect of running his own kitchen, no expense spared.

The other tutors had thought nothing of losing their jobs. Some, like her, had been part-time recruits and the rest, all in their mid-fifties, had been happy enough to use their talents in other directions. The liner had not constituted their sole income.

No one had been left with the corrosive bitterness that she had been left with—but then she had been in a unique situation.

As predicted, she had seen nothing of him, and had no idea how long he’d remained on the liner before leaving. She had hidden away, taking meals in her poky cabin and scuttling to her classes in a state

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