An Unsuitable Wife by Lindsay Armstrong

Author:Lindsay Armstrong [Armstrong, Lindsay]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Contemporary Romance, M&B, 90's
ISBN: 9781459284357
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2013-09-26T04:00:00+00:00

‘All right, take her out. I’ll set the foresail.’

It was eleven hundred hours actually as Morning Mist slid out of Hamilton Harbour with Sid at the wheel. Mike had slept for a couple of hours then disappeared—to make his peace with Tim Molloy, Sid had hoped, but had no way of knowing. He’d come back laden down with fresh fruit and vegetables, fresh bread and some of the bakery’s famous meat pies, and the auto-pilot man had arrived at the same time so that their opportunity for conversation had been severely limited. Which was just as well, she thought. I wouldn’t know what to say to him or even if there’s anything l want to say to him at all. But she’d been unable to help wondering whether Karen would appear on the scene and what kind of a fuss might ensue—she was by no means as certain as Mike that Karen would be willing to play this particular game by his rules. But there’d been no sign of her and she’d breathed a sigh of relief.

So what happens now? she wondered as she cleared the wall and entrance leads and steered the yacht into the Dent Passage and discovered herself feeling a little shell-shocked.

‘Sid!’

‘Yes?’

‘You’ll have us aground if you’re not careful—haven’t you got the chart with you?’ he called from amidships where he was making preparations to hoist the mainsail.

‘No. Oh! Sorry, I must have been dreaming…’ She swung the wheel.

‘Sid,’ he yelled, then muttered to himself, left the sail and came back to the cockpit. ‘What’s the matter?’ He took the wheel out of her hands. ‘Can’t you see that sign? It’s there for the express purpose of preventing yachts from catching aircraft on their masts. That’s the end of the runway, you little idiot!’

‘I’m sorry,’ she said confusedly. ‘Of course it is. I just feel a bit—I don’t know.’ She swallowed. ‘I think it’s all been a bit much for me…’

He cast her a narrowed, intent look. ‘Do you want to go back? Is that what you’re trying to say?’

‘No… No, but…’

‘Are you quite sure, Sidonie?’ he said through his teeth.

She took a deep breath and closed her eyes. After a moment she opened them and said steadily, ‘Yes. I’m fine now. You can put the sail up, I’ll turn her into the wind.’

Half an hour later they’d cleared the passage, set a course and he came down into the cabin and looked at her rather intently as she sat at the chart table. ‘How do you feel now?’

‘F…quite good. Sorry about that. I see you’ve changed your mind about Scawfell.’

‘Yes—I’ve been thinking, the long-range forecast is good, the winds are right-north-easterlies—there’ll be some moon—I’m tempted to run through the night and however long it takes.’

Her eyes widened. ‘Where to?’

‘Middle Percy.’ He glanced at her with that same narrowed look, however.

But Sidonie’s eyes suddenly shone with excitement. ‘What an adventure,’ she said in a hushed voice. ‘Does that mean we’ll have to take turns at the watch

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