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.”

it’s a bit

I love you…

to see them. Charlotte will want to

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

of James, Michael and Charlotte. As he drives, he casts around, craning upwards through the windscreen. “Looks like it’s going to be

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

I’ll turn around, but the salt truck should have done its work up there

it was already cold, with the tang of frost in the air. Now, ascending all the time, the

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

while Ryan says, “What have they called her? The baby. D’you

asked Beth, she said that at the last minute, Charlotte changed it to ‘Cara Deanna’, to

out air. “That sounds like one family reconciliation that’s really

Michael’s spa hotel

the iced road surface, curving slowly in through the

a real success of it. Mind you, I think he had a head-start with being able

drives past the hotel and to the rear, pulling up to the side of another vehicle parked in front of the

permanently now. Michael said that Beth and Charlotte keep each other company and Richard’s happier that way because it keeps Beth

“Don’t blame him. But

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