Love Nest by Julia Llewellyn

Author:Julia Llewellyn
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9780141911571
Publisher: Penguin Publishing
Published: 2009-12-16T22:00:00+00:00

20

Lucinda could barely get herself back to the office. As she walked along the familiar cobbled streets, she could feel her lungs reacclimatizing themselves to air, her jellied limbs solidifying again. She kept replaying the events of a few minutes ago. Nick Crex had kissed her with warm, firm lips. She’d felt his hard body against her, inhaled his faintly salty smell.

He’d called her beautiful.

Re-entering the office, she found it hard to believe she was the same Lucinda who’d left less than an hour previously, for the third viewing. The same auburn hair. The same grey Carolina Herrera suit. The same Cartier pearls on her wrist. But everything was different. She felt beautiful. Invincible. She looked at her colleagues talking on the phone, going through paperwork, from what seemed almost like a position of power.

‘How did the viewing go?’ asked Gareth casually, as if it was just another afternoon.

‘Uh?’

‘With Mr Vertical Blinds. Isn’t that where you were? At Flat 15?’

‘Oh. Yes.’

‘And?’

Did Gareth know what had gone on? She stared at him for a second before she realized what he was actually asking.

‘He’s going to meet them halfway. Which I’m pretty sure they’ll be cool with.’

‘Did he say anything about that junkie lead singer? What a knob.’

‘Third viewings always spell disaster,’ Joanne interrupted, as Lucinda tried to collect herself. ‘He’s obviously not happy about something or he wouldn’t keep coming back.’

‘I know they usually do.’ Lucinda turned on her computer, trying to stop her voice from shaking. ‘But there’s always an exception to the rule, isn’t there?’

A pile of emails had come in while she’d been out. But Lucinda couldn’t concentrate on them. Instead she called up Google and bashed in ‘Nick Crex’. She’d been doing this ever since the Shepherd’s Bush gig. Studying the online gallery of him on stage wearing sunglasses, outside a stadium in a football shirt, which presumably indicated he supported some team – she’d never understood the British obsession with football.

There was a Wikipedia entry, telling her about his tough upbringing in Burnley and how he was considered the brains behind the band. Lots of clips of him doing his stuff on stage that she watched surreptitiously with the sound turned down. Since the gig Lucinda had downloaded their album and been listening to it non-stop. Their music would never really be her thing, but she was getting used to it.

She’d also learned:

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