What Happened That Night by Sheila O'Flanagan

Author:Sheila O'Flanagan [Sheila O'Flanagan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B01KTS4ZQW
Publisher: Review
Published: 2017-06-01T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 24

Lapis lazuli: a unique deep blue gemstone

It was silly to think that Will Murdoch had meant what he said, Bey thought a few months later as she sat at the big dining table with the Jurados, who’d organised a farewell dinner for her the night before she left Córdoba. She’d sent him pictures of her designs as he’d asked, and had received an automatic response saying that he was away on business and would get back to her as soon as possible. But she hadn’t heard anything from him since, and the excitement that she’d felt about someone being interested in her work had dissipated with each passing day. As had the unaccustomed feeling of having met someone who mattered to her in a way she couldn’t quite explain even to herself. Even though she’d only exchanged a few words with him, she’d felt a connection with him that she’d never felt with a man before. But it had been fleeting, she told herself, and he clearly hadn’t felt anything at all. His request to see her designs had simply been a kindness on his part. He worked with fine jewellery. He had no interest in silver trinkets. And no interest in her either. She’d foolishly hoped that he’d be so enchanted by her designs he’d immediately recommend her to a famous jewellery house like Van Cleef or Tiffany’s. But she had to accept that she was nobody as far as he was concerned. And that his promise of letting her know about new opportunities had been part of social conversation, nothing more. So, with no other options on the horizon, she was returning to Dublin.

‘. . . but we hope you will come back to us someday.’ Manolo’s voice broke into her thoughts. He was standing at the head of the table and raising a wine glass to her. ‘Because you have a good eye for beautiful design and you are a quick learner of our methods.’

‘Thank you,’ she said in response. ‘It’s been wonderful being here and . . . and I’m sorry to be leaving you.’ Her voice broke at the end because she was speaking the truth. She was sad that her time with the Jurados, who’d treated her more and more as part of the family, had come to an end.

‘I’ll miss you most of all.’ It was Martín who spoke next. ‘Having you here has made me think differently about our own designs. And other things.’

She smiled at him. She hadn’t said it to Lola, but Martín had been another coffee-jar man in her life. She’d felt the spark of attraction when they’d first met at Birmingham and then when he’d collected her from the train station at Córdoba. And she’d allowed herself to be drawn closer and closer to him as she honed her silversmithing skills, culminating in a night of frenzied passion in the studio apartment above the workshop where she was staying.

But, as with all the men she’d dated, she’d held a part of herself back.

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