All That She Can See: Every Little Thing She Bakes Is Magic by Fletcher Carrie Hope

Author:Fletcher, Carrie Hope [Fletcher, Carrie Hope]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Contemporary Women, Romance, General, Contemporary
ISBN: 9780751563177
Google: Uj4_DQAAQBAJ
Amazon: 075156317X
Publisher: Sphere
Published: 2017-07-13T05:00:00+00:00

16

The Snitch

Sally sat on the floor clasping a cup of tea with both hands but the shock had made her bones cold and there was no warming her up. She was now sitting cross-legged and refused to move anywhere more comfortable.

‘So you became a sort of… spy? For Velina?’ Cherry asked, rubbing Sally’s shoulder.

‘Not sort of. That’s exactly what I am.’

‘But… why? Why would you do that?’ Cherry was trying so hard not to judge but the news had come so out of the blue she couldn’t help but feel betrayed.

‘It wasn’t out of choice.’ Her lip started to tremble but she shook her head and blinked several times, pushing the tears back down. ‘I was married, did you know that?’ She smiled. ‘We were childhood sweethearts. Met when we were just fifteen. He asked me on a date and took me to the ice cream parlour. We shared a banana split and that was it.’ She looked wistful for a moment, lost in her memories. ‘Just like that our fates were intertwined so when he died, he… he took a part of me with him. It’s inevitable, I guess. We were married for over twenty years so of course that was going to happen. I went to Velina and Danior hoping they could help me. I was desperate – there were so many things I never got to say to him, so many things I wanted to apologise for, and Danior said she would help me.’

A muscle in Chase’s jaw jutted out from his cheek.

‘I went back to them, time and time again. I was fed lie after lie and so much false hope at each meeting but I couldn’t see through it, until one day Velina said something that didn’t match up. Ron and I had this ridiculous way of saying we loved each other. I’d kiss the air twice and he’d shoot the kisses down with his hands as if they were guns. Just a bit of fun, y’know. Something no one else understood apart from us.’ Sally became a younger Sally as she talked of times gone by. Cherry caught Chase wiggling his fingers subtly towards the window but only he could see Nostalgia, waltzing outside the window.

‘There was one particular session when Velina told me Ron was in the room,’ Sally continued. ‘I asked her what Ron did when I kissed the air twice and she said he simply blew kisses back at me. It was like flipping a switch. In an instant I realised it had all been lies and deception. I couldn’t take it, I couldn’t believe that all that time when I thought I had this connection with Ron… Well, angry doesn’t cut it. I shouted, screamed, I even ripped down half of that bloody beaded curtain.’ Sally laughed bitterly. ‘I stormed out of their shop, determined to out them as frauds when Danior caught up with me and told me she knew.’

‘Knew what?’ Cherry asked, drawn in.

‘She knew about…’ Sally swallowed hard and spoke into her lap, ‘… my… other man.

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