The Island Bride by Jane Corrie

Author:Jane Corrie [Corrie, Jane]
Language: nld
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Fiction in English
ISBN: 9780263094190
Publisher: Mills & Boon
Published: 2010-11-02T20:08:27.317000+00:00

Pierre offered her a drink as he walked towards

the miniature bar at the end of the lounge, and raised his expressive eyebrows at her firm refusal; she had had several sherries, and now wanted a clear head to be able to argue her case.

He fixed himself a small whisky and soda, and brought the glass back with him as he joined her, then pointed to a comfortable-looking deep chair by the ornate fireplace. 'Do sit down,' he urged her gently, 'and don't look so worried. I have no intention of allowing you to go into a hostel. You are to stay where you are.'

Cara took a deep breath. It was now or never I 'I do appreciate your thoughtfulness, but it's not as easy as that,' she began, but that was as far as she got, for Pierre held up an elegant hand to stem her words.

'Please let me finish,' he interjected, still in that gentle almost apologetic voice. 'Firstly, I must apologise for rather presuming on our acquaintance this evening,' and he met Cara's questing brown eyes with a definite twinkle in his blue ones, and she felt a flutter somewhere around the heart region. 'Not that I didn't enjoy every moment of it, I did, but I also had a particular reason for acting as I did.'

Cara had already worked that out for herself, and she knew a slight spurt of annoyance towards this handsome, charming man with cool assurance, and suddenly realised he was more than a match for the Julia Bessons of this world. If he had decided that Cara would stay in the villa, then stay in the villa she would. For how long, though, was questionablejust as long as it took Matron to have her dismissed, she thought miserably. Her depressed gaze lingered on the man now sitting

opposite her in an identical chair to hers. His dark head was bent towards the glass in his hand, and although he was looking at the liquid it contained, Cara knew his thoughts were elsewhere.

She felt a spurt of pity for Matron who was certain to lose hands down, not only on her desire to take over the villa, but what she had hoped would be the culmination of such a move. Cara wondered how long Matron had known Pierre. It could have been for years, of course, but there was no doubt that she was in love with him, her every glance had shouted it, even at a distance. There was Paula, too, of course, and Cara was sure that Matron did not know about her, which was a pity— looking at it from a purely personal point of view. If only she had accompanied him back to the island, for with Paula in loving attendance by his side, Cara would have been let off the hook.

'I do feel, however, that I owe you an explanation,' began Pierre slowly, breaking into Cara's musings. 'It's not easy to explain, so I must ask you to bear with me for a while.

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