Turbulent Covenant by Jessica Steele

Author:Jessica Steele [Steele, Jessica]
Language: nld
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780263744484
Publisher: Harlequin Mills & Boon, Limited
Published: 2010-11-14T13:01:07.247000+00:00

CHAPTER SIX

THE remainder of their holiday—the word honeymoon was a misnomer—was spent with Holly making up an uneven trio wherever they went. Not that Tiffany ever heard Ben actually ask her to join them, but somehow she was always there. In the end Tiffany tried to accept her, and the more she got to know her, she was surprised to find given different circumstances, she could well have liked her. She received an impression that somehow or other Holly's high spirits were covering up some hurt, and being softhearted, as their holiday drew to a close it was she who would say to Ben, 'Shall I ask Holly to join us?' And if he thought she was pleased to have Holly with them, so much the better, for after that moment before Holly had joined them on Schatzalp when she felt sure she had been ready to tell Ben she loved him, Tiffany was now on guard that such a moment should never come again. They had visited his father for the last time yesterday and were catching an early train for Zurich, then taking off for London in the late afternoon.

It was with mixed feelings that Tiffany left their hotel suite. Ben had reverted to being the taciturn man she had

first known, and try as she might she could not put her finger on what had gone wrong between them as she acknowledged then that she had been secretly hoping that this week might cement a foundation for a marriage that need not be ended. She sighed, realising the forlornness of that hope. Why, it had been only last night that he had snapped at her as if he didn't even like her very much. She had awakened in the night, and for some unknown reason she just had to know what time it was, but when reaching for her watch remembered she had left it in the bathroom. So donning her fluffy dressing gown she had opened her bedroom door and had been shaken, believing Ben to have been in bed hours ago, to find him still up.

`My watch,' she had said by way of explanation, feeling disconcerted that he had moved from his chair to come to where she was standing as if suspecting she might be ill or something. 'I ... I left it in the bathroom,' she added, and made to walk past him, only because she was beset by nerves or maybe she wasn't fully awake, she had stumbled against him, and for one heavenly moment felt his arms around her as they had come automatically to steady her. She cursed herself for her weakness that instead of moving away from him, she had melted against him, only to hear the rasp of his voice as hard as flint saying :

`Can't you look where you're going?'

Never again would she melt against him, she vowed as coming fully awake she'd snapped back, 'Sorry, sir,' for all the world as though they were on duty and she was playing stewardess to his grumpy captain.

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