Promoted to Wife (Destiny Bay) by Conrad Helen

Author:Conrad, Helen [Conrad, Helen]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, pdf
Publisher: DoorKnock Publishing
Published: 2013-04-07T21:00:00+00:00

True to his word, Rick stayed away from her all the next day. Charles drove Aunt Julia, Brandy, and the children to the Danish village of Solvang for the day, so Terry was free to get some organizing taken care of, and to begin training Celia, the maid who'd just been hired.

She saw Rick face-to-face only once, when he was getting ready to leave the house. She hadn't seen him coming and almost ran into him at the bottom of the stairs when she was carrying the tea set down from Julia's sitting room.

“I'm going out,” he told her casually.

She looked into his face but there was no warmth in his eyes. He might have been a stranger.

“I see,” she said, and suddenly the tea cups were rattling on the tray, her hands were shaking so terribly. “When can we expect you to return?”

“I don't know.” He shrugged into the sport coat he'd been carrying. “I'll be at the country club if anyone needs me.”

She had a sudden vision of his friends lolling about in tennis whites, calling to him to come meet a new girl they'd found for him. The vision came with a flash of pain as sharp as the thrust of a knife and she winced, rattling the china again.

“I'll tell the others if they ask.” She was proud her voice was cool. But inside it was another story. Some awful emotion was raging. In a more objective mood, she might have recognized jealousy, but right now she didn't dare admit it, even to herself.

She watched him walk out to his car. He walked as silkily as he talked, all sinuous lines and liquid movements. “Too gorgeous for his own good,” she muttered as he drove away. She swallowed down the lump in her throat.

Rick got back in time for dinner with the others, a dinner which went smoothly. The children had taken a liking to Brandy and she spent hours telling them stories and playing charades, making them laugh. Terry was glad to see them so happy, but now and then she felt a twinge of envy even for this. She wanted the children to like her that way too.

Terry began to wonder if the pressure of her job might not be too much for her. She seemed to have lost all control of her common sense.

The children had been on her mind all day. She knew she had no place giving advice to the Carringtons, but there were some things she knew she couldn't remain silent about. She had to speak her piece, and so she waited to catch Rick when he was alone that evening, having a brandy over his papers in the library.

“Excuse me.” She knocked softly at the open door.

“Yes?”

Rick sat back in the shadows, his handsome face dark and expressionless.

“May I speak to you for a moment?”

“Of course.”

She stepped in and launched before she looked into his face again, wanting to get it over quickly. “I have just one thing to say to you.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.