Tilly Bagshawe 3-book Bundle by Tilly Bagshawe

Author:Tilly Bagshawe
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2014-03-03T00:00:00+00:00

The next day, Tish took Abel into Manchester to shop for some new winter clothes. They’d be back in Oradea soon, where the winters made Derbyshire look like the Costa del Sol, and none of his warm things from last year came anywhere close to fitting him now.

It was a trying trip. Like most small boys, Abel detested shopping, unless it was for a Ben 10 omnitrix or anything ‘dinosaurish’. He whined and moaned his way through the boys’ department of Marks & Spencer, complaining about everything. Every shirt Tish picked out was ‘girlish’. Every sweater was itchy, every pair of shoes too tight. Tish tried hard not to lose her temper with him. He was having a tough enough time dealing with Viorel’s imminent departure.

Vio had told Tish last night that he was leaving early and he had broken the news to Abel today.

‘I’ll be sorry to leave him,’ Viorel told Tish, and on this point at least she believed him. ‘But there’s a bunch of stuff I need to deal with back home.’

He’d come to find her in her father’s study, which somehow felt even more like Tish’s home turf and put him even less at ease. The last time the two of them had been alone together had been the afternoon Tish caught him in bed with Chrissie Rasmirez. Then he’d felt like a naughty, inadequate schoolboy. He felt the same way now, as though he’d been sent to the principal’s office, complete with desk and globe and wood-panelled walls.

‘Of course,’ Tish nodded. ‘I understand.’

Although, the thought struck her that in fact she understood almost nothing about Viorel Hudson. He adored her son but loathed her. Or did he? They were friends; then they weren’t. It was all very confusing. At times, Tish still felt a connection to Vio, an echo of the attraction they had both felt that first day when she’d met him half dressed and covered in soot. But whatever it was that drew them together then seemed destined to repel them now. Perhaps, in the end, they were just too different to get along? Vio clearly found her preachy and self-righteous, that much was clear, and it was true Tish disapproved of him wildly. Sleeping with your friend’s wife was pretty shabby in Tish’s book, and Dorian and Viorel were friends of a sort. Then there were his more general faults, his arrogance and his vanity. And yet there were flashes of real goodness in Viorel, his love for Abel chief amongst them. The man was a mess of contradictions. He claimed to despise the English upper classes, yet he radiated public-school poise and confidence, and gave Tish a hard time for taking Abel away from a life of privilege at Loxley. None of it made any real sense.

‘I’d like to keep in touch with him,’ Viorel said to the floor. ‘If that’s all right with you.’

‘Of course,’ said Tish. She was surprised by his hesitance. He was usually so arrogant around her, around everyone, but tonight he seemed nervous.

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