ONE WEEKEND IN ICELAND (ONE WEEKEND) BY CATE LANE – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Cate Lane
- Language: English
- Genre: contemporary romance
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Rory
Friday
Uncomfortable is not a strong enough word for how I’m feeling right
now. My English friends would call my current situation unpleasant in
their usual stoic way. But while we might all be grouped together as British,
I’m a Scotsman to my very bone marrow, and we aren’t so polite.
I’m fucking pissed, and if I weren’t so constrained in my movements, I’d
be tempted to put my fist through the wall of this flying tin can for fucking
up my booking. I tilt my ass from one butt cheek to the other in the narrow
seat, temporarily relieving the cramping in my lower back, but it’s doing
nothing to temper the hot stew of anger bubbling beneath the surface of my
skin.
I’m not normally worked up by life’s inconveniences, but coming off the
last week—no, make that months—of stress, I’m finding the fuse on my
temper has been cut very short. Continuing in this way is not feasible. As an
angry teenager, I was always getting into trouble, and I refuse to go back to
stoking that destructive flame. Now that I’m in my midthirties, I should
know better. Closing my eyes, I suck in a few deep breaths to stomp on my
rising irritation.
My early years were tough—growing up in the small coal-mining village
of Bilston, not far from Edinburgh, with a total population of less than two
thousand and featuring an abusive, alcoholic father and a mother who took
the worst of it to protect her five children while managing to work three
jobs to keep the roof over our heads.
I didn’t have it in me to shed a tear when booze finally took him from us,
and the heavy burden of responsibility as the oldest son was eased. My
father was a mean bastard who, as far as I’m concerned, did one honest
thing in his whole life, and that was to marry my mother when he got her
pregnant at seventeen. But he ruined it by filling her with his seed four
more times before she was twenty-six. That was shameful.
Even though I love my siblings, my father made my mother’s life a living
hell up until the day he died. Thankfully, his nastiness died with him, and
we’ve all inherited our mother’s strength, resilience, and work ethic in
bucket loads. My three sisters are equally successful in their respective
fields as is Drew, my younger brother, though only by fifteen months. He’s
a best-selling author and the reason I’ve squeezed my six-foot-four frame
into this way-too-small plane seat. He’s getting married, and the buck’s
party weekend is in Reykjavik, Iceland.
I arch my feet as best as I can, hoping to bring some feeling back into my
toes, then lift my shoulders up before dropping them down again. This
being the only arm movement possible if I don’t want the diminutive
elderly lady on my right to slip under my armpit or risk poking the larger
gentleman on my left in the stomach. It’s not their fault they have my tall,
broad frame wedged between them.
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