скачать книгу бесплатно
‘So how about supper, then?’ Luke asked, returning to his earlier suggestion.
‘I suppose I could pop down for half an hour.’
‘Great, so we’ll see you then.’
* * *
Her mother had phoned earlier and Luke had been the main topic of conversation.
‘How are you and he getting along?’ she’d wanted to know.
‘Not bad so far. But it’s early days yet.’ Megan had told her. ‘Luke is going to have his hands full on the domestic front for the next few weeks.’
‘Why is that?’
‘Sue has gone to France to stay with friends.’
‘And taken the boys with her, I hope.’
‘I’m afraid not. They didn’t want to go, and in any case she couldn’t take them out of school during term time.’
‘So her brother has been left in charge of them?’
‘Yes.’
‘And the garden center, too?’
‘Hmm. But I don’t think that will give him much trouble. Everyone who works there is very loyal, and before you ask about the practice, Luke is spot on and determined not to let his other commitments interfere.’
‘Good,’ her mother said, and Megan knew she was saying what Margaret wanted to hear.
‘Now, tell me about yourselves,’ Megan coaxed, moving onto safer ground ‘Are the house and its surroundings as wonderful as you remember them?’
‘Absolutely. We’re going to love it here, but only if you are happy back there in the village.’
‘I’m fine,’ Megan said, omitting to mention that she’d had grave doubts about the suitability of the man they’d found for her to share the practice with, and that they hadn’t entirely disappeared.
And now she’d accepted his invitation to go for supper because she couldn’t see enough of him. She was heading for a fall and knew it.
Вы ознакомились с фрагментом книги.
Для бесплатного чтения открыта только часть текста.
Приобретайте полный текст книги у нашего партнера:
