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- Author: Kate Hewitt
- Language: English
- Genre: Contemporary Women’s Fiction
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THE UNKNOWN NUMBER making her mobile buzz insistently had the area
code from home. Rachel Mowbray squinted in the hard glare of the bright
Ibiza sunlight as she glanced down at the unfamiliar number and wondered
whether she should answer it. Did she really want to hear from anyone in
the 01653 dialling code? The truth was, not particularly.
She switched her phone to silent and slipped it into the oversize straw
bag leaning against her sun lounger. This was the first proper holiday she’d
had in several years, and it was only her second day of it. The knots
between her shoulders had yet to loosen, and last night she’d been too
exhausted to hang out by the beach bar as she’d intended and so she’d gone
to bed at ten-thirty after a single mojito. Hardly the knees-up, hair-down
scenario she’d been hoping for herself, but that would come in time. She
had five more days here in the sun, after all.
In her bag her phone buzzed again, quietly, like a trapped wasp. Rachel
closed her eyes and leaned her head back against the plastic slats of her
lounger. The sunlight shimmered on her closed lids, and she could hear the
gentle lapping of the sea, the distant laughter of some children playing on
the beach…and the buzz of her phone.
For heaven’s sake.
She took a deep breath and opened her eyes, the dazzle of the sun on the
water blinding her for a second. Her phone was still ringing. Whoever was
trying to call her was being annoyingly persistent. A flicker of worry licked
at her insides, and she immediately squashed it. If it was anything
important, she would recognise the number, and really, the only person who
would be calling her from Yorkshire was her sister Harriet, and they hadn’t
spoken in months, maybe years. It was probably just the library chasing up
a book she’d taken out twenty years ago, or maybe the local surgery
reminding her she was due for a cervical smear. She might not have lived in
Mathering, North Yorkshire, for over a decade, but locals liked to forget
that. Just as an outsider could never be fully accepted into their exalted
ranks, an insider could never leave. Not truly. Not even if you did your best
never to go back.
Her phone thankfully, finally, fell silent. Rachel let out her breath in a
gust and leaned once more against her lounger. Time, at last, to relax…
Buzz. Buzz. Buzz.
“Damn it!” The words exploded out of her, earning her a censorious
look from a woman on the lounger a few metres away, who had a toddler by
her feet, building a sandcastle with a bucket and spade. The little girl looked
up at her, wide blue eyes blinking slowly.
Rachel spared the mother a fleeting, only semi-apologetic glance before
she snatched up her phone. “Yes?” she demanded, not able or even willing
to hide her surly impatience.
“Hello, Rachel.”
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