Dark Pirate. Angela Devine

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СКАЧАТЬ said in a tense, rapid voice. ‘But I am not going to come and live in your cottage.’

      Greg sighed and shook his head. ‘That’s a pity,’ he said soberly, looking straight into her eyes. ‘I didn’t think you really cared about convention. When I first saw you, I thought to myself, Now there’s a woman who looks conventional, but isn’t. She’s just on the brink of dis-covering who she is and she’s got the courage to find out. Well, it seems I was wrong.’

      Rose flinched at the unmistakable sarcasm in his voice, then she glanced around the balcony and noticed how the other customers’ eyes shifted hastily away from her. Her eyes came back to Greg’s with a proud, defiant ex-pression. In that instant she reached a hard decision. She knew he was intentionally goading her, but there was enough truth in his words to touch her on the raw. Was she always going to hang back from challenges or was she going to find out what she really wanted from life?

      ‘You’re not going to give up at the first sign of difficulty, are you?’ she demanded in a deliberate echo of his words the previous day. ‘You don’t have the look of a coward, my dear.’

      A gleam of admiration illuminated Greg’s face. He reached across and gripped her hand so hard that it hurt

      ‘Let’s go home,’ he urged hoarsely.

      

      Greg’s cottage was as spacious as Aunt Em’s, but in far better condition. It stood high on the cliff-top just to the west of Polperro, with a dry-stone wall around it, a ship’s wheel set in its sparkling teal-blue gate, a garden full of lavender and roses in the front and a paved terrace and dazzling view of the ocean in the rear. He led her round to the back of the house and opened an unlocked glass door which led into a Victorian-style conservatory.

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