Confetti and Confusion (The Paradise Cookery School series Book 2) by Daisy James

Author:Daisy James [James, Daisy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-07-27T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

After Imogen and her bridesmaids had left, Millie couldn’t face making a start on the tidying up. One thing she knew for certain was that Zach would not be appearing at the French doors, the usual smirk on his face and a sarcastic comment on his lips about her propensity for scattering culinary chaos. Ignoring everything she had been taught at college, and all the encouragement from her super-organised sister Jen, she decided to leave the clearing up until the next morning.

She locked the French doors and took a moment to drink in the view from the veranda. The Pitons seemed to reflect her mood perfectly: dark, glowering pyramids of shadow setting sail in the inky black of the Caribbean Sea. The town of Soufrière slumbered peacefully at their base, amber streetlights twinkling like dancing fairies. She glanced down at the swimming pool, the rectangle of turquoise somehow drawing her towards its depths.

On impulse, she kicked off her sandals, dropped her straw bag on one of the sun loungers and skipped down the wooden steps to the terrace. Without allowing herself the time to talk herself out of it, she stripped off her capri trousers and Breton tee shirt and launched into the pool in her underwear. The cool water felt like a veil of silk slipping over her skin and she powered through twenty laps without stopping until her breath came out in spurts but her mind was clear and refreshed.

So what if Zach was probably, at that very moment, entertaining his ex-girlfriend in his little wooden cabin amidst the cocoa trees whilst Binks snoozed outside on the decking. It was not as though they had been an item, just two friends who enjoyed each other’s company while they were far away from home.

But Millie knew that no matter how many times she reminded herself of that fact, she was deceiving herself. The way her heart bounced with joy whenever Zach arrived on the veranda, or gave her that quirky, sardonic smile, she knew her feelings for him stretched well beyond friendship, despite the short time she had known him. She knew that her sister had met and fallen in love with her husband, James, whilst visiting their mother in Provence. He had been on a backpacking holiday and had moved on after only two weeks, but Jen knew she was going to spend the rest of her life with him. And so she had – one country village wedding and two children later they were happier than ever.

When she had asked Jen how she had known James was her soulmate so quickly she had simply responded that she just knew, that it wasn’t something she could put into words. It was a feeling of absolute certainty that they were on the same wavelength and the fact that she couldn’t bear the thought of being apart from him even for a second. Millie had taken those pearls of sisterly wisdom on board and had waited for those feelings to sneak up on her when she met Luke, but they hadn’t.

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