The Bride's Bouquet Bleeds: Felicity Philips Investigates Book 7 by Steve Higgs

Author:Steve Higgs [Higgs, Steve]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-12-28T16:00:00+00:00

Primrose Green

I left my house with a full head of steam, ready to kick some butt even if it was going to be verbally rather than physically. Primrose Green had gone too far on many occasions, and I had always let her get away with it. However, this was the royal wedding we were talking about, and I was not going to let her ruin it for the happy couple or for me.

Vince’s car was absent, a rectangle of dry tarmac showing where it had been overnight. I hadn’t heard him leave, though I was likely in the shower when he did. Last night my thoughts were straying toward giving in to his advances and I honestly couldn’t articulate why I was still holding him at bay.

I could use the widow excuse and say that it was all to do with feelings for my late husband, but I knew that wasn’t true. Perhaps that was how it started months back when Vince first came into my life, but Archie had been gone a long time.

However, Vince made me see red this morning, acting as though we spent the night together when we had not. Of course, that was just how Vince was – roguish. In truth, I was more offended by Mindy’s comments about how it would do me good to get … what term I am happy to employ? Laid? Bedded? None of them sat well with me.

Using the cross-country drive to work through my feelings, I was able to think about why I was holding Vince at arm’s length. I wasn’t in love with him, but I knew that I could be. There was attraction, certainly. We were a similar age, he possessed many fine attributes, and if nothing else, he appeared to be completely besotted with me. So much so that he was willing to continue waiting and waiting for me to finally make a decision about whether I wanted him.

Ultimately, I realised that I had avoided a physical relationship because taking that step would be like agreeing to a marriage proposal. I’m not trying to be overly dramatic, it’s simply like that for me, one goes with the other.

My niece is carefree and fairly open about her sex life, not that I think she is promiscuous, but she is an adult and has a boyfriend. She is also nineteen and I think that makes a genuine difference.

I was going to have to speak to Vince about what happened this morning, and I was going to have to articulate my feelings on the subject of sex and why I still wasn’t ready to take that step. Acknowledging that there was no time like the present, I thumbed the phone button on my steering wheel and told the voice recognition thing to phone him.

Now, I won’t say Vince has always answered my calls first time because he has not. He is a busy man with a successful business and a lot of employees, but I called him six times during the drive to Primrose’s house and it went to voicemail every time.

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