Hot Revenge Box Set 2
Chapter 24 Kirstie’s Christmas
Three Days Before Christmas
The clouds, low, dull and grey, match my mood, and I stare out of the passenger window, not wanting to show my disappointment. Sleet spikes down, spitting onto the windscreen and the wipers squeak, leaving white streaks as they arc across the glass.
Ryan, from the driver’s seat, lays a hand on my thigh. “Cheer up. There’ll be others.”
“I know…” My throat is unreasonably tight. “It just looked so good in the ad. I’d thought maybe…”
He cuts in, but the cheerful tone to his voice sounds forced. “Vendors are always going to overegg the cake. It did say, Needs Renovation.”
I huff. “Needs complete demolition and rebuilding would have been nearer the mark.” Then, at his answering silence, I realise how waspish I must have just sounded. “Sorry, I didn’t mean it to come out like that. It wasn’t aimed at you.”
He squeezes my knee. “I know. Hey, tell you what. We’re not far away. Let’s go say Hi to the happy family. You can deliver your balloon and your card and whatever else it is you have stashed in the back. They’ll dose you with wine and mince pies and we’ll all get into the Christmas spirit.”
I hesitate.
Do they really want my gloomy mood there? Right now?
“I’d like that, but...”
Ryan persists. “We’ll be looking at properties again in the New Year. Who knows what we’ll find then? There’ll be something.”
paint on a smile, conscious that it’s a bit watery, but also
I love you…
be nice to see them. Charlotte will want to show
another squeeze. “And she’ll want to
Michael and Charlotte. As he drives, he casts around, craning upwards through the windscreen. “Looks like it’s
Even here on the low ground the road is sheened white and
around, but the salt truck should have
on the zig-zag mountain road. When we left the City this morning, it was already cold, with the tang of frost in the air. Now, ascending
and frozen mist hangs low over the fields. At ground level, the grass and shrubs are thick with rime. But it is stunningly beautiful. Frost picks out individual twigs and stalks, like some spectacular cake icing, and as we climb, grows denser and
a while Ryan says, “What have they called her? The
at the last minute, Charlotte changed it to ‘Cara Deanna’,
“That sounds like one family
spa
carefully over the iced road surface, curving slowly in through the gates and past a parking lot occupied by top-end models. “It’s looking good,” he
Mind you, I think he had a
City High and Mighty.” He drives past the hotel and to the rear, pulling up to the side of another vehicle parked in front of the Threesome’s home. “Isn’t that the
Michael said that Beth and Charlotte keep each other company
him.
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