Return to Butterfly Island by Sharp Rikki

Author:Sharp, Rikki [Sharp, Rikki]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9781619352339
Publisher: Soul Mate Publishing
Published: 2013-06-10T21:00:00+00:00

James McKriven leaned a little closer. “You were the one desperate for a loan this time last year. ‘The school will close!’ you wailed at me. ‘We need to modernize the classroom’. Then there was the new roof you needed for your cottage. We were best friends back then.”

“I should have never borrowed from you. What a bloody fool I was.” Then James silenced her with a kiss, as China had done with Donald those few hours before. But there was no tenderness in this embrace, no passion. Rather it was his mark, informing her that she was his. He owned her now.

“Just do as you’re told and the repayments will remain nice and low. Cross me and you’ll be living out in the open fields!” Then, like the pantomime villain he was, James faded back into the crowd, smiling back at Irene all the way.

Oblivious of McKriven’s threats, China had cornered McGregor the solicitor.

“Tell me the secret of how you found me, or else I’ll ask you to dance!”

Douglas McGregor fiddled with his glasses, his mustache bristling, a little embarrassed by the pretty woman from the city. “Total chance really.” He fished inside his tweed jacket for a moment and eventually produces a crumpled newspaper cutting. “Remember this?”

It was a story cut from the Manchester Evening News about a month before, showing the gathered staff of Slater & Marsh Advertising Agency celebrating winning a large European contract. Tucked away at the back was a familiar face with a mass of curly blond hair.

“I’ve had people looking for you for years. You don’t remember me. I was twenty when you left the island, but I’ll never forget the day when that bubbly blond little girl and her sad-looking mother left and never came back. The light went out of your aunt’s life and she saw only the negative side of people from that day on. When I saw this picture, I knew it was you. Three days before she died, I showed it to Beatrice. You should have seen her smile. I have my suspicions about what has kept you hidden away from us. But this picture slipped through, thank God.”

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