The Trusting Game by Penny Jordan

Author:Penny Jordan [Jordan, Penny]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9781459276697
Publisher: Harlequin Treasury
Published: 2012-01-24T23:52:18+00:00

CHAPTER SIX

‘QUICK, look over there—isn’t that a spaceship landing?’

Jolted out of her thoughts, not so much by what Daniel was saying as by the urgent tone of his voice, Christa looked up obediently and stared through the window of the moving Land Rover, her eyebrows lifting slightly as she heard Daniel laughing.

‘Well, at least it got a response,’ he defended, as she gave him a wry look. ‘You’ve been very quiet for the last half-hour, very deep in thought. Anything I need to know about?’

The question was light enough, but the look he gave her was anything but, Christa acknowledged, and, as her heart teetered on the brink of a spectacularly high dive, her pulse-rate soared.

She had been awake half the night going over and over what had happened between them, and even when she had been asleep she had been dreaming about him. She knew how much she wanted him now, needed him, loved him, but a part of her still feared those emotions, so much so that there had been several occasions during the night when it had urged her to get up and run while she still could.

‘Not really,’ she fibbed now in response to his question. ‘Not unless you’ve got a particular interest in the designs for next season’s fabrics.’

She hadn’t deceived him, Christa recognised, but fortunately a wandering and very reckless sheep, on its way across the road, diverted his attention for long enough for her to change the subject as they turned a corner and she saw their destination in the valley below them.

‘That’s the town?’ she asked him unnecessarily.

‘Yup.’

It looked more like a large village than a town, Christa decided as she studied the haphazard arrangement of narrow streets and terraced houses, grey stone buildings set under grey slate roofs, the whole area enclosed by the mountains which surrounded it. She could see the open area of the cattle market to one side of the town and, rather unexpectedly, the tall spire of a church.

‘There was a time when a lot of the local landlords were English rather than Welsh,’ Daniel explained when she commented on this. ‘As well as the church, the town boasts a posting inn and a small spa, although that’s closed at the moment for renovation.

‘The slate covering the roofs was quarried locally. There are shale deposits all over the mountains, many of them very dangerously unstable, especially at this time of the year when the water table can be at its highest.’

‘What difference does that make?’ Christa asked him curiously.

‘A great deal when there’s a hidden underground water course beneath the shale.’

They were down in the town now, its narrow streets far more crowded than those Christa was used to. She wouldn’t have enjoyed being the one driving through them, she acknowledged as Daniel waited good-naturedly for people to walk past before driving on.

There was a considerable difference in attitude here compared to her home town, she noticed, as people stopped to acknowledge one another and call out cheerful greetings to the drivers they made way for.

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