Heart of the Hawk by Elizabeth Mayne

Author:Elizabeth Mayne
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Mills & Boon By Request
Published: 1995-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

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Two hours later, Rachel had given up asking David where they were going. ‘Is this it?’ she had asked as the Jaguar approached a shopping centre.

‘No,’ he had said mysteriously. ‘Not this one.’

After she had got the same answer six times, she had sighed and resigned herself to watching the landscape whizz by. All she was certain of was that they were heading south. Twisting mountain roads gave way to the houses of suburbia, and finally she could see the towers of New York City rising in the distance.

‘All this for a toy store?’ she asked.

David flashed her a quick smile. ‘This isn’t just a toy store. It’s Mecca for kids. Just wait until you see it!’

By the time they reached Manhattan, she was sure she knew where they were going. The man was crazy, she told herself as they drove up Fifth Avenue, but nicely so.

‘We’re going to FAO Schwarz, aren’t we?’ she asked.

David grinned at her. ‘Absolutely. Have you been there?’

She shook her head. ‘It’s too expensive for me, but I know about it. Everybody in New York knows about it.’

‘Then you’re long overdue for a visit. I guarantee that you’ll feel as if you were a kid again inside of ten minutes!’

For a fleeting instant, Rachel wondered whether she’d lost her mind. Here she was, seated alongside David Griffin, laughing and talking with him as if they were friends and not adversaries. But there was no time to think. He was hurrying her into the store, tugging her after him towards what looked like a teddy-bear convention. And within minutes, all her efforts were concentrated on the merits of talking bears versus plain, huggable teddies. And then, of course, there were brown bears as opposed to white bears, and it wasn’t easy to decide whether big ones were better than little ones...

Finally Rachel surrendered. ‘Go on, David, buy all of them. We’ll give Jamie one bear a day for a week, then he’ll have his own bear pack.’

David laughed. ‘The perfect solution! You heard the lady,’ he said to the salesman. ‘We’ll take them all. Gift-wrapped, of course.’

The salesman smiled. ‘Of course, sir. Will there be anything else?’

‘Yes,’ said David, taking Rachel’s arm. ‘We need a... what do we need, Rachel? A train? A new set of blocks? Finger paints?’

She looked up at him and shook her head. ‘Are you joking? You just bought Jamie a dozen stuffed animals!’

‘Seven,’ he said modestly.

‘And you want to buy something else? David, you’ll spoil him!’

‘Babies can’t be spoiled,’ he said, ‘only loved. Didn’t anybody ever tell you that? Besides, you haven’t got him anything yet. What do you think he’d like? Trains? Yes, sure, every boy has to have a set of trains. But which kind? Wooden? Electric?’

Rachel sighed in defeat. ‘Wooden ones. He’s only a year old.’

David nodded solemnly. ‘See? It’s a good thing you came with me. What do I know about babies?’ He turned to the salesman who had followed them at a discreet distance. ‘Trains,’ he said.

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