Catching Katie. Sophie Weston
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Katie grimaced, remembering. ‘I thought I was really lucky to find it.’ She was unconscious of the wistfulness in her voice.
The man’s eyes sharpened. ‘Why?’
‘Well, I’ve only been in London nine months but I’ve lived in six different places—not counting the floors I’ve slept on in between,’ she said ruefully. ‘The last one was a shared flat in Clapham.’
‘The place you moved out of today?’
She nodded.
He said slowly, ‘What went wrong?’
‘Oh, the usual,’ said Katie bitterly. ‘It was great for a while. Lots of fun. We had great laughs together. Then one of the girls started an affair with another one’s boyfriend and it all fell apart. Sex,’ she added, ‘can be a great mistake. ’
Quite suddenly, the man’s lips twitched. It made him look horridly sexy, Katie thought. On top of everything else, it wasn’t fair. She looked away.
He said gravely, ‘Which one were you?’
She was startled into looking him in the eyes. ‘What?’
‘The betrayer or the betrayed?’ he explained.
‘Oh.’ Katie gave a choke of startled laughter. ‘Neither. Much worse than that.’
His eyebrows flew up. ‘Worse?’
‘I was the one they were still both talking to,’ she said drily.
Haydon bit back a smile. ‘I see,’ he said gravely. ‘Exhausting.’
‘You can say that again.’
Between the weeping, the hurt pride, the recriminations and the unpaid bills, Katie had been at her wits’ end. All she had wanted was to find somewhere, anywhere, to live on her own once more.
That was when she had seen the advertisement. A reliable person was wanted to live in a South London house and care for the garden while the owner was abroad for three months. The house was a comfortable walk or a short bus ride from the school where she taught. She did not know anything about gardening but, heck, there was always the public library. It had seemed like the answer to a prayer.
Some of this she told him. She would have been surprised and annoyed if she had guessed how much she did not tell him that he still managed to piece together.
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