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‘Just as well,’ she threw after him
Ten minutes later, Alex was only a block from the office, stuck in traffic
‘Da Harriet but decided that wouldn’t be good enough He had to do this face-to-face There was no option but to wait
Chapter Twenty-five
HARRIET WAS CURLED up on her sofa, no longer crying but feeling terrible, when there was a knock on her flat door It was a rather timid knock, so she kneasn’t Alex come to demand she return to work Not that he would Alex wouldn’t run after any woman
Probably a neighbour, needing so
It was Betty fro to borrow an onion She was a dear old love who found it hard enough to get up and down the stairs, let alone walk to the corner shop just to buy an onion Harriet was happy to give her one
‘Thanks, pet,’ she said ‘I saw you co well? You do look a little peaky’
‘I had a bad headache,’ Harriet invented ‘But it’s gone now In fact, I was just about to go out for a walk along the beach’
‘Wish I could cos of mine won’t cooperate Thanks for the onion’
After Betty left, Harriet forced herself to put on leggings, trainers and a light sweater, then set off for a poalk to the beach Exercise always did her good, as did the sight of the sea There was so the waves roll into shore Sospiritual
The first sight of the blue ocean lifted her spirits You will survive this, Harriet, she told herself And, just think, soon you’ll have a baby to love Hoonderful was that?
By the time Alex reached Harriet’s address he was not a happywhen he couldn’t find a parking spot in her street for love nor money In the end, he parked in soave the startled woman a hundred dollars to let his SUV stay there for a couple of hours Alex figured he ht need a couple of hours to convince Harriet that he really, truly loved her Lord knehat he was going to do if she didn’t love hiive a damn
It wasn’t like Alex to entertain negative thinking, but it wasn’t every day that he fell in love He understood nohy he’d been afraid of it Because he had known, subconsciously, that when and if he fell in love it would be very deeply Not to have his love returned would shatter him