The Cottage by the Shore by Rachael Lucas EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
- Author: Rachael Lucas
- Language: English
- Formats: PDF / EPUB
- Status: Available For Free Download
- Genre: Clean & Wholesome Romance
- Price: Free
- File Size: 2 MB
- Publish Date: April 15, 2023
Two months earlier
‘SHE GOT OFF OKAY THEN?’
Sophie’s best friend Bea passed over an unbleached paper napkin from
the neat stack which sat on the counter next to pottery bowls full of
misshapen brown sugar lumps.
‘Not a glance back over her shoulder.’ Sophie blew her nose loudly,
stuffing the napkin in the pocket of her blue-spotted raincoat, and then took
another and began dabbing at the corner of her eyes.
‘You’re supposed to be proud that she’s independent,’ said Bea, pushing
a steaming mug of coffee towards her friend.
‘I am,’ said Sophie, disconsolately.
‘I can tell.’ Bea’s fair eyebrows arched upwards in amusement, but her
expression was gentle. She reached over, closing her warm hand over
Sophie’s still cold one, and squeezing gently. ‘You’re doing an amazing
impression of a mother who’s just sent her only daughter on a plane back to
the USA.’
Sophie gave a gusty sigh and tucked her hair behind her ears, looking at
her wrist for the elasticated hairband that was normally sitting beside her
watch. She remembered with a little jolt of despair that it was currently tying
up Tabby’s hair, and was probably making its way across Iceland.
‘I’m really proud of her. You know I am. It’s just…’
‘I know. It’s a long way, and she’s not back now until the summer.’
‘She’s not back for the summer.’ Sophie’s heart contracted at the thought.
‘She’s already been snapped up for a summer job coaching kids at a camp.
She was utterly over the moon when she told me.’
‘I assume you did your best impression of not minding at all?’
‘Exactly.’ Unlike now, when she was giving in to the sadness she felt, her
cheeks rigid and her eyes red-rimmed from crying all the way home from
Manchester airport. Sophie picked up the mug and took a sip, gazing out of
the window at the rainy January street.
An almost empty bus splashed past on
the sleek wet tarmac, and an elderly couple – him in a flat cap, his wife in an
old-fashioned rain-hat – peered into the window of the café, looked at each
other and without exchanging a single word, headed inside. A blast of chilly
air made the hairs on her arms stand on end as they made their way in, taking
off coats and hats and making a long performance of finding somewhere to
sit. Bea, who had infinite patience with people, picked up a menu and headed
over to welcome them with her habitual smile. Sophie turned back to her
coffee, leaning against the counter and watching as her friend put the couple
at their ease, making them laugh as she took their order.
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