Dickie (Feeney Family Sagas Book 4) by Sheelagh Kelly

Author:Sheelagh Kelly [Kelly, Sheelagh]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781911591221
Publisher: Canelo
Published: 2017-04-23T22:00:00+00:00

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The wedding festivities continued until early evening. Belle asked Sally to take the children home to bed so that she could enjoy a supper with her family – though it was hardly enjoyable, knowing what was going through her Aunt Dusty’s mind every time Belle so much as looked at her uncle. Nevertheless, she stayed if only to avoid a row with Brian, who would most certainly have been waiting for her had she gone home earlier.

By this time, ten o’clock, she calculated that he would have grown sick of hanging round.

He hadn’t. When she entered her parlour there he was to greet her. Seeing him, she pulled up sharply, then marched on, easing off her gloves and slapping them onto the sideboard. ‘And what are you doing here?’

He had risen, face contrite. ‘I’ve been waiting to see you.’

‘Oh really? Well, now you have done you can get out. Sally!’ she called into the kitchen. ‘Make some cocoa will you – for one.’

‘Belle …’ He tried to take her arm.

She looked at him coldly. ‘I’m afraid if you require cocoa, Doctor, you’ll have to take it elsewhere.’

His brown eyes pleaded. ‘I only did it because I care for you so much.’

‘Did what? Stormed off like a truculent child leaving me to escort myself home? A fine way of showing you care!’

Brian lost his temper. ‘I’m sure there were plenty of volunteers to accompany you!’

‘Ah, so that’s why I find you here,’ she rasped. ‘Not to apologise but to learn which one of them might have jiggered me after you left.’

‘If you’re not prepared to talk about this sensibly …’

‘Sensibly! You accuse my uncle of…’ She uttered a mew of suppressed fury. ‘I can’t believe that you could think anything so despicable. If my mother could hear this …’

‘She probably saw it for herself! You were openly flirting with him!’

‘And where’s the sin in flirting? I’m twenty-six, not an old woman.’

‘So you admit it?’

‘Admit that he’s a very attractive man? That I find his attention flattering? Yes, I do. What’s wrong with that?’

‘Because I love you and it hurts me, that’s what’s wrong!’

She studied his anguished face, and after a long hesitation, said, ‘I think we’ve come to the parting of the ways, Brian.’ He was too shocked to answer.

‘I just can’t cope with all this. I haven’t time to waste on answering these interrogations every five minutes. You knew how it was when we started this relationship.’

Brian found his voice which emerged in a tone of disbelief. ‘I knew that you didn’t love me, yes! But I certainly didn’t think you were going to flaunt yourself at other men.’

‘I’m sorry if my bit of enjoyment has hurt you; it certainly wasn’t intended to. But I think it’s shown both of us how futile this relationship of ours is. The longer it continues the more you’re going to expect of me and the more you’re going to be hurt. You want too much, Brian … it’s better if we end it now.

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