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.”

a bit watery, but also that

I love you…

them. Charlotte will want to show

another squeeze. “And she’ll want to see you, I’m

steer; towards a turn-off that will take us to the home of James, Michael and Charlotte. As he drives, he

their house, yes, I should think so.” Even here on the low ground the road is sheened white

truck should have done its work

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 falling

But it is stunningly

a while Ryan says, “What have they called her?

at the last minute, Charlotte changed it to ‘Cara Deanna’, to name her after her grandmother…

out air. “That sounds like one family

and Michael’s spa hotel swings into view: Life

through the gates and past a

a head-start with being able to call on Beth Haswell’s rich buddies to

be friends with the City High and Mighty.” He drives past the hotel and to the

I think Richard and Beth are here more or less permanently now. Michael said that Beth and Charlotte keep each other company and Richard’s happier that way because

blame him. But she’s okay

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