Susanne James by The British Billionaire's Innocent Bride

Author:The British Billionaire's Innocent Bride [Bride, The British Billionaire's Innocent]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2012-06-03T21:49:09+00:00

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‘No, of course not, silly!’ Lily blew her nose. ‘I was trying not to sneeze just then, that’s all,’ she lied.

‘Well, then, just so long as you take care of yourself, Lily…’

‘I’m used to doing that, Sam,’ she said. ‘I’ve been doing it all my life, remember?’

‘Well, don’t forget you’re welcome here any time,’ he said. ‘Come for an extended holiday while you work out your next step—you may even find something here that interests you.’

They chatted on for a while. Sam was still excited about his prosperity, and anxious to share it all with his sister.

Lily smiled briefly as she snapped her phone shut. She still found it hard to believe that she actually had a blood relation who cared about her. Even though they didn’t see very much of each other, it was lovely just knowing that he existed. That he was there.

The next morning at breakfast, Theo casually told the children that someone was arriving who might be coming to help look after them. All three looked up at him as he spoke.

‘What’s she called?’ Freya asked flatly.

‘Mrs Evershot,’ Theo said.

‘Is she coming to shoot us, then?’ Alex asked.

‘I don’t like her,’ Tom piped up. ‘I don’t like her name.’ He looked across at Lily. ‘You won’t let her shoot us, will you, Lily?’

Lily had her back to the children while she was making their milk drinks, and she said, without turning around, ‘Of course she’s not going to shoot you—or anyone else,’ she added. ‘And anyway, she’s only coming for a visit today.’

There was an uncomfortable silence after that, while the children finished their toast, and Theo threw a quick glance at Lily, raising his eyebrows briefly.

She sat down at her place at the table. ‘I’ve organised a very difficult set of tasks for you three today,’

she said brightly. She sipped from her mug of tea. ‘First of all, you have to search for some of your toys that I’ve hidden in the garden. There are twelve out there altogether. And then when you’ve found them you must colour the pictures I’ve chosen for you to do…If they’re good enough, we’ll mount them on some sugar paper and hang them up here in the kitchen. And then,’ she said, her eyes twinkling across at them, ‘there’s a very, very,very difficult quiz you’ve got to do.’

‘I love quizzes,’ Freya said eagerly, drinking in every word that Lily was saying. ‘And I’ll help Tom-Tom with the answers, because he’s only little.’

‘That’s kind of you, Freya,’ Lily said, ‘but I’ve made Tom’s a bit easier than yours—and Alex’s a bit harder than Tom’s. So it’s all going to be fair.’

All this information had completely taken over from the thought of Mrs Evershot’s arrival, and Theo looked across at Lily as she nibbled at her slice of toast. Her opinion of herself as being rubbish at Generated by ABC Amber LIT Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abclit.html

looking after children was completely unjustified, he thought. She knew exactly how to deal with them—seemed to understand what made them tick, how they were feeling.

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