I’d rather fall in ice cream. —Rosie’s Diary SEAN took his time over the coffee. The lesson, he reflected, was never to ask a question to which you didn’t want to hear the answer. He was practised at that. Good at keeping things light. People at a distance. Never digging beneath the surface to find out what made them tick. Taking care never to expose his own inner thoughts or feelings. Elle challenged that in him. She told him stuff that he didn’t want to know. Intimate, private stuff that seeped into his psyche, settled in the small dark spaces of his mind that had been left unoccupied. Stirring up the dust, disturbing the cobwebs. He’d walked away from her yesterday, determined to stay away until Saturday morning. At the garden party, he rationalised, they’d be too busy to do more than pass out ice creams, take the money. And she’d be off to work as soon as he’d dropped her off and brought Rosie back to the barn. Except Rosie wasn’t coming back with him. And Elle was here right now.
What do You think about Tempted By Trouble (2011)?
