Her Man of Honour by MELANIE MILBURNE

Author:MELANIE MILBURNE
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2013-08-16T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER NINE

AMY buried her head under the pillow for the tenth time that night as the snores from room number four reverberated through the thin walls.

She had met Maurie Morrison over dinner in the dining room, having only just scraped in on time after being held up at the clinic with a last-minute patient with an allergic reaction to a beesting. Betty, the cook, had given her a disapproving frown and placed an overloaded plate in front of her, the greasy food swimming in a congealing pool of gravy doing nothing to encourage her already diminishing appetite.

Maurie had talked non-stop about anything and everything until Amy’s eyes had begun to glaze over. She had politely excused herself and gone to her room to escape into a book, but on her last visit to the bathroom before bed, she’d had to stand outside for endless minutes, practically cross-legged, until Maurie had finally come out with a sheepish grin, before shuffling back to his room, his slippers flapping on his feet.

Amy had finally got to bed, closed her eyes and drifted off to sleep, only to be woken a couple of hours later by a racket that would have got a seismologist leaping to his feet in alarm, she was sure.

She glanced at the clock after another sleepless hour and groaned. How was she supposed to be single-handedly responsible for the town’s health with no sleep? She hadn’t even had a chance to recover from the stress and drama of the night before.

She let another half-hour pass before she decided that rather than toss and turn any longer she would get up and do something physical. The sky was starting to lighten so she put on her trainers and a pair of shorts and top and, scooping up her car keys, tiptoed downstairs.

Without consciously intending to head that way, she suddenly found herself approaching the turn-off to Caveside Cove. She turned into the road and, leaving her car in the shade of a tree, took the rough pathway the rest of the way down to the beach.

The ocean was rolling in with a two-metre swell, the salt spray filling the fresh morning air with fine beads of moisture. The sun on the cliffs had turned them almost pink and the sand beneath her feet was littered with thousands of shells.

She cast her eyes back to the sea and watched in fascination as a dorsal fin broke the surface of the water just beyond the breakers. Within moments another one appeared and then the glistening arc of a dolphin’s back surfaced. The rest of the pod was close behind, their bodies undulating with the smooth grace of nature at its perfect best.

After a while they swam out of sight and Amy’s eyes moved to where her cousin’s shack was situated in the dunes halfway along the beach, and before she knew it her legs were carrying her towards it.

Even in the flattering light of the golden glow of early morning the shack didn’t look like a place anyone in their right mind would want to live in indefinitely.

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