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.”

bit watery, but also that Ryan is doing

I love you…

see them. Charlotte will want

My thigh gets another squeeze. “And she’ll want to see you,

to the home of James, Michael and Charlotte. As he

think so.” Even here on the low ground the road is

around, but the salt truck should

road. When we left the City this morning, it was already cold, with the tang of frost in the air. Now, ascending all the time, the temperature is

over the fields. At ground level, the grass and shrubs are thick with rime. But it is stunningly

have they called her? The baby.

But when I rang and asked Beth, she said that at the

air. “That sounds like one family reconciliation

spa hotel swings

surface, curving slowly in through the gates and

a

Mighty.” He drives past the hotel and to the rear, pulling up to the side of another vehicle parked

and Charlotte keep each other company and Richard’s happier that way because it keeps Beth calm. After she almost lost their baby, he’s keeping her where she’s among

“Don’t blame him. But she’s okay

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