Avoiding Mr Right by Sophie Weston

Author:Sophie Weston
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Romance
ISBN: 9781459263253
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 1996-01-02T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIX

CHRISTINA stood up. ‘Oh, I think we can manage without His Highness,’ she said, ruffled.

She smoothed her hair, curbed her giggles and went to assist negotiations.

‘Where do you want us?’ she asked the harbour-master, at last.

She was editing Captain Demetrius’s inflammatory speech with abandon. It was clear that the harbour-master knew it. He glared at the captain.

‘Where I want this floating traffic hazard is somebody else’s harbour,’ he spat, but he could not resist cornflower-blue eyes. He sighed. ‘You are persuasive, signorina. And I suppose I would not want it on my conscience that I let Captain Blood up there loose on the high seas again. Very well. But you tell the Prince that he gets a new captain or this boat does not leave port. Understood?’

She nodded diplomatically but under her breath she said, ‘Gee, thanks.’

When the launch had gone, zipping over the waves like an angry wasp, she eyed Simon thoughtfully. She had been entertaining a suspicion about Simon for several hours. From the complacent look on his face now, she was almost certain that she was right.

‘Simon, you know how to get in touch with your uncle, don’t you?’

Complacency dissolved into consternation so fast that it was ludicrous. ‘I don’t know what you mean,’ he hedged. ‘Mother calls his office...’

Christina pursed her lips. ‘I’m not talking about your mother. I’m talking about you. I think you could speak to him right now if you wanted to. In fact, I think your uncle Kay may be lot closer than anyone thinks. And you know it even if your mother doesn’t.’

Simon went red.

‘Uncle Kay says Mummy is a nuisance,’ Pru remarked chattily. ‘Do you think he’ll say the captain’s a nuisance as well?’

‘I should think he’ll say we’re all a nuisance,’ said Christina, her antagonism fanned by the small girl’s artless confidence. What right had the man to be saying such things to Pru about her mother? Especially as he could not even be bothered to join the cruise that he had sent them all off on. ‘Simon—’

‘Oh, no. He likes you,’ Pru said with confidence.

But Christina was narrowing her eyes with intent at Simon. She flapped an irritated hand at this diversion. ‘Your uncle Kay doesn’t even know I exist.’

‘Uncle Kay knows everyone,’ Pru said proudly. ‘Sir Goraev says that’s what makes him a great man.’

‘Who is Sir Goraev?’ snapped Christina. ‘Court flatterer?’

That went over Pru’s head. It was probably just as well, thought Christina. This situation was hardly the children’s fault.

Pru was struggling to explain Sir Goraev. ‘He runs things. He ran things for my grandfather too. He’s very old and doesn’t like people. But he likes Uncle Kay.’ She was obviously quoting. ‘Uncle Kay never forgets any of his depin-dipen—’

‘Dependants,’ Simon supplied. His colour had returned to normal. He gave Christina a bland smile which set her teeth on edge.

‘I, however, am not one of his dependants,’ Christina snapped, quite forgetting that this was only a child. She caught herself, irritated, and sighed. ‘Simon, you’re a superior little beast.

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