This Side of Paradise by Kay Thorpe

Author:Kay Thorpe [Thorpe, Kay]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Large type books, General, Fiction
ISBN: 9780708960578
Publisher: F.A. Thorpe
Published: 1985-02-15T00:00:00+00:00

They landed at eleven on the same beach Gina had left three days previously. A man about to descend to the ski-deck of the jetty paused to give her a startled glance as she stepped ashore from Ryan's cabin cruiser.

'Aren't you the girl who's been missing?' he queried curiously. 'There's a search plane out looking for your boat right now.' His eyes flickered to Ryan and back again. 'Story was you were on your own when the storm hit.'

'She was,' Ryan said shortly. He took Gina's arm in a light grasp, resisting her immediate attempt to shake it off with a grim tilt of his lips. 'Try acting like an adult for once. We have to get the search called off.'

For Gina the following fifteen minutes were confused ones. Despite everything, she was glad of Ryan's calm support throughout the ordeal of questions and phone calls in the hotel manager's office. She had a distinct impression of scepticism behind the latter's acceptance of her story, especially from the way his glance kept drifting from her to Ryan during the telling of it.

Marie's arrival from wherever she had been located was another ordeal.

'We got back yesterday,' she said. 'They had a radio transmitter at the house, so we knew you hadn't made it back before the storm struck. We were all pretty sure you'd capsized the boat.' She gave Ryan a frankly speculative glance. 'Lucky she happened to land up in your place, wasn't it?'

'Yes,' he agreed, 'it was.' The grey eyes held a cynical expression. 'Can you put me in touch with these people who own the launch? She'll need working on before she can be put in the water again.'

'I can give you a number to ring.' Her gaze shifted a little as if she found him disconcerting. To Gina she added with a certain faint relish, 'There's going to be trouble over that boat, I'm afraid. You should never have taken it.'

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