Yesterday's Shadows: A gripping saga of new beginnings and new dangers by Rosie Goodwin

Author:Rosie Goodwin [Goodwin, Rosie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Headline
Published: 2016-03-23T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty

‘You should have told me before!’ The girl’s eyes flashed as the light from the moon sailed from behind the clouds to temporarily shine through the car window.

Gordon Fraser, her boss, slid his arm across the back of her seat and spoke to her coaxingly. ‘How was I to know I was going to fall for you? Does it really matter so much? Me and the wife were finished long before you came on the scene. You’re just the excuse for me to get out of a loveless marriage.’

‘Oh yes? Say that to all your conquests do you, Gordon?’

Hearing the sneer in her voice, his first instinct was to tell her to go to hell, but with the moonlight playing on her long blond hair she did look remarkably pretty. There had been a stream of girls before her, though Linda Ensor couldn’t know that. Perhaps as well, because this one was worth hanging on to for a while, if his long-suffering wife Maisie didn’t get wind of it, of course. She’d soon put a stop to it if she did, just as she had endless times before. That was the trouble being married to a sour-faced old cow, who just happened to be your boss as well. None of his employees knew it, but his wife saw to it that he didn’t forget. The small engineering firm he ran had been left to his wife by her late father – and he made a good job of running it. The perks that came with the job helped, such as the endless stream of pretty young secretaries he got to take on. Most of them were like putty in his hands. After all, there was a certain status to being known as the boss’s bit on the side. But this one . . . she’d almost had a fit when she found out he was married, and if he wanted to play her along for a bit longer then he’d have to turn the old charm on big-time!

She was sitting as if she’d been cast in stone staring petulantly across Seeswood Pool. Funny that she hadn’t clocked on to the fact that he was married before, being as he usually brought her here to this out of the way lay-by, but she hadn’t! It was Jim Bonner in the yard who’d dropped him in it, the big-mouthed sod. Huh! From now on Jim had better watch his step; you’d have thought he was the boss sometimes, the way he stalked about the yard. He’d worked there for years, for Maisie’s father when he was still alive, and because of that, Maisie thought the sun shone out of his arse. Well, just let the sly old sod put one foot wrong again and he’d give him his marching orders and bugger the consequences.

Gently taking Linda’s chin, he turned her to face him. ‘Look, sweetheart, it’s not what you think – honest. Like I just told you, me and the wife have led separate lives for years.

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