Trial Run: Addicted To Love Romance Collection by Ella Medler

Author:Ella Medler
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: Ella Medler
Published: 2014-10-31T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 20

Change of Mind

Dinner improved their moods no end, and the spectacular sunset helped, too. It was far too hard staying angry when the whole tropical setup conspired to lift the mood and make them happy.

They finished up by the water’s edge, sitting on the sand with the surf tickling their toes, and watching the sun’s last rays send streaks of color running into each other across the sky.

“Somewhere over there is home,” Amelie said, pensive.

“Do you miss it?” Rob asked.

“Yes. No. I don’t know.”

Rob shook his head and smiled at her girly answer.

“What I mean is, I really wish I had the chance to do what I set out to do. You know, gather all the info so I could prove to Jason once and for all that I really do know what I’m talking about. So, yeah. I wish I could have done that.”

“This whole business thing is important to you, isn’t it?” he asked, suddenly feeling awful for allowing himself to be drawn into Jason’s plot. He should have at least listened to her side of the story, too, before he’d made up his mind.

“Yeah,” she said, and nodded. “I just want to be allowed to live on my own, make my own mistakes, grow old the way I want to, with whom I want, or alone, if I so choose. It’s my life. Jason is too… Well, I guess his heart is in the right place. But I… I just feel stifled.”

She was smiling, but her expression told him so many other things. There was a trace of hope there, but it was swamped by a thick layer of defeat, uncertainty and anxiety. Her eyes were sad, but she still held her chin up. Resigned, yet proud. Still confident she would have succeeded. When had the scrawny eleven-year-old grown up into such a strong, beautiful woman?

Rob sighed, his thoughts in turmoil. He surprised himself by how much he wished he could smooth out all those worry lines on her brow. Just a minute! His loyalty was toward Jason, surely. The whole point of going through this exercise had been so that Amelie would stop behaving like a spoilt brat. But would a spoilt brat look so worried?

He was pretty certain she wouldn’t be worrying about staying alive; he could look after her, and she knew it. She’d said she trusted him to look after her. What else would a young rich girl be worrying about? Money? Nah; she’d have access to plenty of that when she got back. A boyfriend? Rob bristled at the notion, then relaxed. Jason would have known about him, if there was one. There wasn’t much that got past Jason.

So then, she must be telling the truth. She must be genuinely concerned about not being able to prove to her brother she was capable of running her own business. And from what he’d seen already, she had the head for it. The figures on her laptop did add up. In fact, they looked damn good.

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