EDEN (Eden series Book 3) by Le Carre Georgia

Author:Le Carre, Georgia [Le Carre, Georgia]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Publisher: Georgia Le Carre
Published: 2015-03-26T07:00:00+00:00

In the darkened confines of the car I feel Jake’s hand take mine.

‘Your hands are cold,’ he says. ‘You’re not nervous, are you?’

‘A bit.’

He squeezes my hand. ‘Don’t be. I’ll be at your side the whole time.’

I smile gratefully at him.

‘You do know you will be the most beautiful woman in there.’

‘You haven’t even seen all the women yet.’

‘I don’t need to. You are the most beautiful woman to me.’

As we approach the queue of people waiting to get in I feel a little apprehensive, but also a heady sense of excitement. The new Eden’s marbled and gilt splendor seems almost garish to my heightened senses. I feel so buoyed up I am almost light-headed. My feet seem to scarcely touch the ground and my stomach feels empty. I suppose it could be because I haven’t eaten for hours. I daren’t eat, not with this dress. Perhaps I am also anxious that I may not fit in. The shadow of his mother’s disapproval looms. I know she will be here. Will she undermine me?

Red ropes are lifted and we are ushered in.

We go past the plum velvet loveseat in the foyer toward the enormous central vase filled with magnolia blossoms. Struck by two spotlights the blooms seem almost brighter than the lamps.

The music grows louder and my heartbeat quickens.

We enter the club and the whole of fashionable London seems to be there. All the dancers are in their best, and beautiful people are everywhere. It must be true that beautiful models, male and female, have been flown in from all over the world to pretty up the place. Under the chandeliers the supremely rich are casually amused and the air is charged with their intriguingly corrupt whiff. Laughter ebbs and flows like the tide.

The mayor of London is present; movie star hair, sharp as knives, and as usual pretending to be a good-natured buffoon.

Jake takes me to the table where his mother is sitting. Her eyes meet mine and her back straightens. She drops her eyes to a large bowl of floating orchids set in the middle of the table.

‘Ma,’ he greets, and bends to kiss her. In the candlelight the pearls around her neck glimmer milkily. She appears softened and yet hostile.

‘Hello, Mrs. Eden,’ I greet politely.

She nods distantly. I can’t blame her. I might be even more ferocious if I thought someone was threatening my son. I remember being in school and aggressively fighting Luke’s battles for him.

‘Lily, meet my sister, Layla,’ Jake says.

I turn to meet a stunning creature in a deep red silk dress standing next to us. She is tall, very tall—she might even be five ten or eleven—and is everything I have always thought of as beautiful. Her hair is the color of bitter chocolate and cascades down her back in rich and lustrous waves. Her eyes are as green as Jake’s, but there appears to be either gray or blue in them, too. Her nose is straight and narrow, and her mouth is large and expressive.

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