Cornish Village School - Second Chances by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Canelo Books
Published: 2018-09-20T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eighteen

Sylvie was jolted by the sound of a text coming through. She saw as she looked at her phone that it was just past four which meant she had been sitting there for nearly an hour – she must’ve fallen asleep after Tom had left. He was a funny old thing – fancy thinking she had any intention of hurling him out of Lovage Farm!

Sitting here was not helping get on with the afternoon; she couldn’t remember the last time she had dozed during the day. She hit play on the voice note she had received and heard the voices of Sam, Alex and Ellie singing, ‘We’re all going to the beach right now, beach right now,’ pretty tunelessly. Sam managed to fit in a properly hideous crescendo at the end that made her grin. He was her future, there was no way she would be selling the farm off when it was the security she had for Sam, the one thing she knew she could give him, even when he was but a twinkle.

Shaking her head, hoping it would get rid of the sleepiness, she got to her feet and headed to grab the beach bag by the back door. She boiled the kettle and made herself a coffee to take in the car with her – maybe that would also help clear the fug. A quick check in the hallway mirror, and she decided to slosh some cold water on her face just to make sure.

It took a mere ten minutes before she was parked in Penmenna village and walking to the beach, the sun beating on her face and the pink Fowey Pride still in bloom and poking out of the walls. As she turned the corner by the ice-cream shop she could hear the squeaks of Ellie and Sam before she saw them tiptoeing by the water’s edge, playing the racing-the-tideline game and deliberately losing. Alex was down there with them, their giggles occasionally interspersed with his deep rumbly laugh. An orchestra of sound when combined with the crash of the waves and the noisy caw of circling gulls. It brought a smile to her face for the second time and she felt her pace pick up as she headed towards them.

For some reason, the very shape of Alex struck her today. She had experienced that flutter yesterday when he had put his arm around her, but today she was deeply aware of his sheer physicality. The way the T-shirt shaped his abs, and the way the top of his arms filled the sleeves to bursting was possibly her favourite bit. She was used to beautifully toned young men – after all she had been dancing with them her whole career – but there was something even stronger about Alex, something that made her tummy flip when she studied him, butterflies not merely fluttering their wings flirtatiously but practically colliding and bouncing off the wall of her stomach.

Why was this hitting her today? Did she

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.