False Conclusion by Veronica Heley

Author:Veronica Heley
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781448304202
Publisher: Severn House Publishers
Published: 2020-01-22T00:00:00+00:00

ELEVEN

Monday, late evening

Bea said, ‘I didn’t say I wouldn’t help you. Piers is right. We need to check the legal position.’

Bernice said, ‘I promise we’ll think of something.’ She turned Evie round and led her out of the door and up the stairs. The door closed behind her.

Bea said, ‘Bernice shouldn’t make promises. She hasn’t a clue what she’s up against!’

Piers took his phone out of his pocket and read a text. He didn’t seem to like what he saw. ‘I’m ordered to be ready for collection at half eight tomorrow morning, when I’ll be taken to the Trescotts to start work at nine. I think not!’ He busied himself sending a reply.

Bea got off the bed and sat at the dressing table to take off her jewellery and make-up. ‘What are you telling them?’

‘I’m texting that I’m leaving tonight for a vacation in Florida. Back in four weeks’ time.’

‘Evie will tell him otherwise.’

‘Maybe. Maybe not. We need a council of war. A list of people to contact. Your solicitor’s pretty good, isn’t he? We need to fend off any attempt to remove Beatrice from your guardianship. Also, how do we rescue Leon? Who else do we know on the Holland board of directors? Surely they ought to know what’s happening to the man? And can we work out what action Cyril is going to take next? We’ll have to think up something soon or those two girls will do something silly and end up in worse trouble than they started.’

‘I’m too tired to think.’ She reached for the zip at the back of her dress, but Piers got there before her, and pulled it down. Slowly and with care. He kissed her bare shoulder. ‘I’ll put the cat out, make sure the grandfather clock’s been wound up, the front door is bolted and the alarm on.’

She didn’t have a grandfather clock and Winston would take care of himself but she was happy to leave shutting up the house to him. She took her time in the shower, and heard Piers use the one in the guest room. The girls were moving around on the top floor, calling out to one another. Also using the shower. They weren’t planning to run away together, were they? No, of course not. Bea told herself she was overtired and imagining things.

She put on another of her best silk nightdresses. She wasn’t quite sure why. Probably because it made her feel good.

When she emerged from her bathroom she found Piers sitting up in her bed wearing his new reading glasses and nothing else. He was tapping away at his laptop. She didn’t know how to act. She thought of sweeping off to the guest room in a fit of high dudgeon … if only she could remember what ‘dudgeon’ meant. She thought of how comfortable it would be to slide in beside him, and have a cuddle.

She thought of the wound he’d dealt her so long ago and it was like being stabbed in her heart all over again.

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