The Rock'n'Roll Romance Box Set (Pam Howes Rock'n'Roll Romance Series) by Howes Pam

Author:Howes, Pam [Howes, Pam]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Cantello Publications
Published: 2014-01-10T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY ONE

Roy told the receptionist he was expecting a visitor who could be sent straight up to his room. He flirted briefly with her and her colleague and then went on his way, mulling over the berating he’d received from his mother over lunch. His father had shown a bit more sympathy, but only after his mother left the room. Roy hadn’t dared argue back, if it made her feel better then so be it. She ranted and raved about what a good wife and mother Sammy is and what a lot she’d had to put up with during the early years of their marriage, when Roy was never around. How she didn’t deserve any of this, especially after losing Nick. She also said that if he didn’t go back to Sammy, and he took up with that young woman again, she would wash her hands of him once and for all!

He’d tried to explain that Sammy didn’t want to live with him at the moment and that it was over between him and Livvy, but found it hard to get a word in edgeways and had wisely chosen to stay quiet. He was glad to escape back to the sanctuary of the hotel.

The chambermaid had just finished cleaning his suite as he approached and he winked as she pushed her trolley up the corridor. Pity she wasn’t wearing a French Maid’s outfit like they wore in the Carry On films, Roy thought wistfully, checking out the drab grey uniform his particular chambermaid was wearing. Definitely a turn off in anybody’s books.

***

‘Can I help you, Sir?’

‘Roy Cantello’s room, please.’ Eddie smiled at the girl on reception whose eyes opened wide when she recognised him.

‘Err yes, room 125, up the stairs and to the left.’

‘Avril, Avril, come here quick,’ she whispered. She pointed after Eddie’s departing back. ‘It’s another one of the group that our mums like. He’s going up to Mr Cantello’s room.’

Avril stared after Eddie’s departing back. ‘Was he good looking as well?’

‘I’ll say he was. You should have seen his big blue eyes. Bloody hell, they’ve aged much better than The Rolling Stones and Rod Stewart.’

‘I’ll stay out on the desk for a while, see if they come down,’ Avril decided, shuffling bits of paper around in an effort to look busy.

She didn’t have long to wait, within five minutes Roy and Eddie strolled through the reception area and smiled at the girls as they left the building. Avril and Sharon gazed after them with longing.

***

Sharon grinned knowingly. ‘Perhaps Roy Cantello is on the look out for a new wife, we’ll have to wait and see. Play your cards right, girl, and you never know.’ She patted her hair into place as the phone rang and switched on her receptionist’s voice. ‘The Grand Hotel Westlow; you’re speaking to Sharon. How may I help you?’

***

‘Where’s the first flat?’ Eddie asked Roy as they pulled away from the hotel.

‘Just a couple of roads down from here; we could have walked.

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