Mistletoe and Mystery (The Paradise Cookery School series Book 3) by Daisy James

Author:Daisy James [James, Daisy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-07-27T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

On Tuesday morning, Millie spent a leisurely extra hour in bed, hugging a cup of coffee and leafing through one of Claudia’s cookery books, drooling over the recipes and the glossy photographs that accompanied them. She had carried up a selection from the library the previous evening and had fallen asleep with her favourite – The Baking Blend – hugged to her chest like a treasured teddy bear. How wonderful it must be to have your own cookery book published, thought Millie, never mind twenty!

She glanced around her suite, so tropical and bright, but the ambience was spoiled by the bibliographic paraphernalia scattered around the floor. So much for her resolution to reign in her untidy tenancies. Pippa would be disappointed. She leapt out of bed, gathered up the cookery books and piled them neatly on her bedside table. Next, she scooped up her discarded clothes and hung them in the wardrobe before collecting her toiletries and lining them up, Zach-style, along the glass shelf in the bathroom.

Better, she sighed, contemplating taking a quick snap to send to Pippa to prove to her that she was a reformed character. But her friend deserved more than a swift text and she resolved to call her that night before she went to sleep.

After a refreshing shower, she grabbed a short tartan skirt, black roll-necked sweater and woolly tights, and slotted her toes into a pair of Gucci-style flats. She fluffed up her curls and, with minimum attention to makeup, galloped along the corridor to the top of the stairs where she paused, a crazy thought running through her mind.

Could she?

She knew Leo and Mike would be sequestered in the library on their business calls and she had seen Gina and Marianne drive away in Leo’s Mercedes for the highly anticipated Christmas shopping trip to Cheltenham over an hour ago. It was the perfect opportunity to indulge in a childhood fantasy.

She took a quick glance over her shoulder to see if anyone was lurking in the shadows of the split gallery landing, then cocked her leg over the banister. She was about to let go when she recalled Claudia’s story about Rupert breaking his wrists whilst doing precisely what she intended to do. But the tickertape of trepidation was interrupted by Zach’s voice urging her to go for it, to try everything once and see where it took her, so she gritted her teeth and let go. The sense of exhilaration as she slid all the way to the bottom was huge, despite landing in an undignified heap on the parquet flooring.

As she picked herself up, triumph whipping through her chest, Zach’s laughing face floated across her vision. Her newly acquired adventurous streak was purely down to his encouragement, whether it be zip-lining through the rainforest, riding on the back of a snow mobile, or learning how to move on from heartbreak and contemplate the possibility of falling in love again – as scary as that had once seemed after the debacle with Luke.

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