HIGH TIDE AT MIDNIGHT by Sara Craven & Mineko Yamada

Author:Sara Craven & Mineko Yamada [Craven, Sara & Yamada, Mineko]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Comics & Graphic Novels, Graphic Novels, Romance
Amazon: B00V5XVUM8
Publisher: Harlequin / SB Creative Corp.
Published: 2015-03-25T00:00:00+00:00

'No.' Morwenna looked down at the length of unbroken peel in her fingers.

'No, I'd rather not.'

'Go along with you,' Inez urged robustly. ' 'Tes only an old bit of

superstition. It can't hurt you.'

'I suppose not,' Morwenna muttered, capitulating. But she felt ridiculously

nervous and self-conscious as she repeated the words of the old charm and

tossed the apple peel over her left shoulder.

'Dear life,' Inez remarked blankly, and Morwenna knew before she even

turned what initial letter the peel would have formed on the kitchen floor.

She steeled herself to laugh it away, but the smile froze on her lips as she

turned and saw Dominic standing silent in the kitchen doorway, the

betraying apple peel at his feet.

'Teaching our visitor old wives' tales, Inez?' he asked, his mouth curling

sardonically.

' 'Tes just an old custom, my dear, and where's the harm in that?'

'None.' He pushed the peel aside with the toe of his shoe. 'As long as no one

makes the mistake of taking it seriously.'

Morwenna would have given anything she possessed to prevent that

all-too-betraying blush from spreading over her face, but it was beyond her

control. She swallowed as she rose to her feet. 'I'll clear that mess away,' she

began, but he cut sharply across her words.

'Leave it, Miss Kerslake. Inez will see to it. I'd like a word with you in

private.'

She walked stiffly after him, wiping her sticky hands unobtrusively down

her jeans like a naughty child.

'Is something wrong?' she asked haltingly as he led the way into the study

and closed the door behind them.

'Do you know why my uncle has taken it into his head to dine downstairs

tonight?' He was frowning.

She shook her head. 'Does there have to be any particular reason?' she asked

lamely.

He sent her a narrow-eyed look. 'Everything Nick says or does these days

seems to have the same basic motivation,' he said coldly. 'He seems

determined to re-open old wounds, and I'm quite aware whom we have to

thank for that.'

She moistened her lips. 'I think you overestimate my influence, Mr

Trevennon.'

'I don't.' His eyes were fixed on her face. 'Oh, I acquit you of any desire to

become an old man's darling, but the charge of being obsessively

single-minded about gaining your own ends still stands.'She wanted to tell

him then that it was no longer she was that single-minded. That if it was left

to her, she would go no further with her attempt to clear her mother's name.

Laura herself would not have cared, she thought achingly. Her generous

affection would have wanted Nick's happiness, whatever the cost. She had

expected him to be happy. Perhaps even then she had suspected that once

she was out of the way, he and Barbie Inglis would arrive at an

understanding then undreamed of.

'I don't think you understand,' she began, but he interrupted remorselessly.

'I understand only too well. You're quite determined to drag this whole mess

out into the open once again, and you don't care who you may hurt in the

process.'

Karen Inglis? she wondered. Was that whom his concern was for? Any sort

of disgrace to her aunt would be bound to affect her even peripherally. She

felt her face stiffen.

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