[Polwenna Bay 01.0] Runaway Summer by Ruth Saberton

Author:Ruth Saberton [Saberton, Ruth]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Hotel, Friendship, Boats, Women, Saga, love romance, Cornwall, Ball, Passion, Footballer, Romantic, Drama, Family, builders, fishing, beach, Model, female, Summer, escape
ISBN: 9781523781287
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Goodreads: 25167714
Publisher: Notting Hill Press
Published: 2015-05-01T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter 19

While Summer had been fast asleep in the Tremaines’ bath, Mo had been sitting in the family kitchen and thinking that she was starting to know how Faust must have felt. Although her particular deal with the Devil meant that she now had sixteen hands of talented horse to enjoy, rather than Faust’s unlimited knowledge and worldly pleasures, the nagging sensation that this agreement was going to cost her more than she’d ever imagined was surely one that Goethe would have recognised. Granted, Ella didn’t want Mo’s immortal soul – but she did want to know Jake’s every movement. Mo, who was at heart a very honest person, was growing more and more uncomfortable with that arrangement.

Today was proving far too wet to school the horses, so once all of her stable chores were completed and she’d given herself a headache trying (and failing dismally) to balance the books, Mo had left her four-legged charges rugged up and chomping hay. Then she’d pulled on her waterproofs and stomped over to Seaspray. She’d been rather hoping for a cup of tea, a thick wedge of her grandmother’s homemade fruit cake and a big heart-to-heart with Alice about her finances. Mo hadn’t dared tell anyone just how bad things were without Ella’s contributions, but the constant text messages and interrogations about where Jake might be and what he was doing were starting to make her nerves jangle so badly that the horses could feel her tension down the reins, and now she was longing to tell somebody her woes. Yesterday at a regional qualifier Splash had knocked the show-jumping course flying like heaps of stripy matchsticks, and even the new horse seemed off his game. It was superstitious nonsense, of course, but Mo couldn’t help feeling worried that by accepting Ella’s strange offer she might have jinxed herself.

It was unusual for Mo to feel in need of reassurance. She was normally secure in her own judgements and never doubted the choices and decisions she made. Sometimes she lost her temper but generally Mo believed she was justified in all that she did, given that she always had the best intentions. The problem was that this agreement with Ella, for all the good it was undoubtedly going to do for the yard, didn’t make her feel like this at all. No matter what she told herself, Mo just couldn’t shake the fear that she’d made a big mistake. Always frank with herself and others, almost to the point of bluntness, Mo knew that her desperation had enabled Ella to manipulate her and that, in turn, she would be manipulating her brother so that Ella could get her French-manicured claws into him. It made her feel quite sick inside.

The ugly truth was that she’d sold Jake down the river to save her business and boost her career. Not great, Mo, she said to herself. Still, it was too late to back out now; the deal was done. Besides, she’d fallen head over heels

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