How to Seduce a Ghost by Hope McIntyre

Author:Hope McIntyre [McIntyre, Hope]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Mystery
ISBN: 0892960132
Publisher: Warner
Published: 2005-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 14

ONCE I FOUND MYSELF PONDERING THE ANSWERS TO those questions, I gave up trying to get to sleep. I went downstairs and retrieved Selma’s package from the hall table. I opened the shutters to the garden to let in the moonlight and curled up on the sofa with the tape recorder on the floor beside me. It could have been a romantic setting but the sound of Selma’s voice on her latest tape killed any semblance of fantasy.

“Nothing can describe how I felt when I first came to London,” she began and her tone forewarned that what I was about to hear would be real and unpleasant. “The man I had loved and trusted had dumped me in favor of someone he’d known for just a few months. My self-esteem was at an all time low. I did not believe I would ever be able to count on a man again.

“The only thing that kept me going was the role I had been offered as Sally McEwan in Fraternity. Sally was just about everything I was not. At least not at that particular moment in my life. She was tough, she was strong. She knew what she wanted and she went out and got it. And she had a man who loved her. He loved her so much, he was prepared to stand up to his family to defend her. Whereas I had banked everything on a man who kept our relationship hidden from his family and his friends. I had been a fool and now I was paying for it.

“It’s safe to say that on arrival in London I submerged myself in Sally McEwan. I adopted her willful, attention-grabbing personality off screen as well as on. I hid behind her. Whenever I had doubts about something, I would ask myself What would Sally do? My instinct was to buy myself a little one-room apartment in some neglected area of London where no one would find me but, thanks to Sally, I plowed my money into a much wiser investment: a five-story mansion in fashionable Notting Hill. In fact, Sally guided me through all the decisions on how to behave that I had to make at that time, except one: the choice of a man.

“I noticed Buzz the minute he appeared on the set. He was the agent of one of the other actors. I noticed him because he had the strange romantic look of a gypsy. He wore exotic clothes in rich autumnal colors. Embroidered waistcoats. Boots with Cuban heels, that made him seem even taller than his six feet two inches. Long scarves in soft wool wound round his neck several times. He wore linens, tweeds, cottons, cashmere, never synthetic fabrics. My eyes followed him everywhere. He was loose-limbed and he loped around the set with a kind of easy grace.

“Sally McEwan would have waltzed right up to him and introduced herself as she did to her husband in Fraternity when she met him on one of his business trips to New York.

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