Lovers Touch by Penny Jordan

Author:Penny Jordan [Jordan, Penny]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781408999271
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 1988-06-30T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIX

WITH less than a month to go before the wedding, Nell was determined to prove to Joss that her powers of organisation were equal to the combined efforts of his secretary and his interior designers, even though she might exhaust herself in the process.

Perhaps it was as well if she did. It would leave her less time to think, to dwell on the enormity of what she was going to do.

A curt phone call from Joss had reminded her that he expected that they would both inhabit the master suite of the house from the day of their marriage, and, with the ideas and information garnered from Liz, Nell called Mrs Booth into the library for a conference of what could and could not be achieved.

Between them, the existing staff, who had learned to turn their hands to almost anything and everything during the years they had worked for her grandfather, confirmed that they could tackle all the renovations and redecoration Nell had in mind.

She had worked long into the night for the three days since her return from Cambridge, drawing up lists and making plans.

Telephone calls to suppliers in London had taken care of the ordering of the wallpapers and fabrics she would need, and Mrs Knowles in the village had confirmed that she and her daughter and niece together could just about make up the fabric Nell had ordered in time for the wedding.

The sketches and photographs culled from magazines that Nell showed her had made her marvel a little, but she was a skilled needlewoman with enough confidence in her own ability to boost Nell’s flagging spirits. After three days of non-stop endeavour, she was beginning to wonder if she should after all have simply given in and allowed Joss to organise everything.

But if she gave in now, what would her life with him be like? If she did produce a son, he would probably have the child taken away from her, insisting on having him brought up by nannies and other hired, qualified staff, and Nell was not going to have that.

In fact, Nell was discovering a fighting spirit she had never even guessed she possessed. It disturbed her to realise how very protective she felt already of a child she had not yet even conceived.

She even found herself walking the length of the long gallery when she ought to have been doing other things, studying the features in the family portraits, wondering whether her child would take after her family or look like his father.

Her child … She shivered a little. The child would not merely be hers, but Joss’s as well, and he would have his own definite ideas about his upbringing.

At times when she ought to have been concentrating on wallpapers and fabrics, she found herself dreamily wondering, picturing a baby with Joss’s dark features, a child whom she could love as much because he was cast in his father’s image as for himself, and then she caught herself up sharply. Their child would be an individual, not a mirror-image of his father.

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