The Cheesemaker's House by Jane Cable

Author:Jane Cable
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 781783069149
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
Published: 2015-01-29T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirty-Five

I wake in bed when it is barely light and realise I am alone. I sit up sleepily and look around me. Owen’s clothes are not on the chair where he normally leaves them; perhaps he has decided to go home. But then I hear the patio doors slide open and closed beneath me and the sound spurs me into action; if I race downstairs and open the front door I can cut him off before he goes.

I grab my dressing gown and rush from my room. But one look through the glass in the front door makes me stop; Owen isn’t walking away from the house, he is crossing the road from the green and walking towards it. But then he isn’t; he comes into my field of vision from the direction of the barn. It is a heart stopping moment. I open my mouth to scream but instead I watch soundlessly as Owen’s face becomes a mask of terror and he turns and runs for his life.

I push open the door and race up the drive after him, then across the lawn. I am calling his name but he doesn’t stop and I lose valuable ground as we pass through the orchard. At the end of the garden he vaults the fence before setting off across the field.

“Owen – Owen – please – come back!” I am screaming but I can’t follow him in my bare feet. All I can do is yell and watch him disappear in the direction of the Swale and the Moors.

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