Vengeance by Susan Lewis

Author:Susan Lewis
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2007-02-08T05:00:00+00:00

20

‘Oh come on, can’t we drop it now?’ Helena grumbled, adjusting her seat to lie more comfortably. ‘I told you it was a joke, how the hell do I know how to make a goddamned whammy doll?’

‘I’m not saying you do,’ Kirsten said. ‘I’m just asking you not even to mention it in front of Anna. Or Ruby. Laurence is relying on you to try and calm them both down. Though if you ask me Anna’s faking her fear. In fact everyone thinks she is. She just likes playing the damsel in distress and having big strong Laurence take care of her.’

‘Yuk!’ Helena muttered. ‘Anyway,’ she said, yawning and settling deeper into her seat, ‘I take it there’s no truth to the rumours? They’re not having an affair?’

‘I don’t think so,’ Kirsten answered. And she didn’t. How could they be when Laurence was behaving the way he was with her?

‘So, how are things doing between you two?’ Helena asked. ‘Any progress?’

Kirsten smiled. ‘Yes and no,’ she said. Then she groaned, ‘I have to tell you, Helena, seeing him every day and feeling the way I do is a living hell. I told you what happened outside my hotel room, didn’t I? Yes, of course I did. Well, since then I’ve kind of come to a decision.’

‘Which is?’ Helena prompted.

‘I’m going back on all I said before and if he makes one more approach to me I’m not going to do anything to stop him. No, I know what you’re going to say, I never have stopped him, and believe you me I despise myself for being so weak. But I have to accept the fact that I can’t resist him so the next time anything looks like it’s going to happen I’m going to come right out with it and tell him exactly how I feel about him.’

‘You are?’ Helena said, evidently impressed.

‘I am. I’m almost positive he feels the same way, at least sometimes I am and I thought that maybe if I came clean about my feelings it might encourage him to come clean about his and that way I can get on with things without tying myself up in knots about what might or might not be going on in his head.’

‘Sounds reasonable,’ Helena commented.

‘I just hope I’m right,’ Kirsten went on a little less confidently. ‘I mean, I know there’s no problem with regard to the sexual side of things, but as to whether or not he’s in love with me . . .’

‘Of course he is,’ Helena interrupted. ‘Any jackass can see that.’

Kirsten laughed and squeezed Helena’s hand. It was exactly what she’d wanted to hear.

She rested her head against the back of the seat and closed her eyes. As happy as she felt the ambiguity of his parting words had been preying on her mind ever since he’d left and they were in danger of taking on a meaning that she longed to escape. But she couldn’t, and by now she’d lost count of the times she’d asked herself if perhaps she hadn’t got it all wrong.

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