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.”

on a smile, conscious that it’s a bit watery, but also that Ryan is doing

I love you…

it would be nice to see them. Charlotte will want to show

course she will.” My thigh gets another squeeze. “And she’ll want to see

Charlotte. As he drives, he casts around, craning upwards through the

on the low

it isn’t, I’ll turn around, but the salt truck should have done its work up

was already cold, with the tang of frost in the air. Now, ascending all the time, the temperature is falling despite the

air is frigid, and frozen mist hangs low over the fields. At ground level, the grass and shrubs are thick with rime. But it

Ryan says, “What have they called her? The

and asked Beth, she said that at the last minute, Charlotte changed it to ‘Cara Deanna’, to name her after her grandmother… Her father’s mother

air. “That sounds like one

the final corner and Michael’s spa

slowly in through the gates and past a parking lot occupied by top-end models.

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

and to the rear, pulling up to the side of another vehicle parked in front of the Threesome’s home. “Isn’t that

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 it

blame him.

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