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2020-08-23 21:16:48The little girl looked at her shyly, tears clinging to her long, dark eyelashes. “Secret cookies? What do they taste like? ”She asked hesitantly, wavering between suspicion and curiosity.
"Hm, I have no idea, that's why they're so secret," Faith replied with mock perplexity. “I'd have to try again. - Would you like to help me with that? Something tells me you're a really great secret cookie taster. "
After a long hesitation, Emily finally nodded. "Okay."
Faith smiled satisfied, got up again and held out her hand to the little one. "Come on, let's go over to the kitchen and have a look."
Emily slipped her fingers trustingly into Faith's hand and followed her out of the room.
As Faith crossed the hallway with her, she felt the man's gaze boring into her back, and the hair on the back of her neck rose.
Seconds later, Emily was sitting at the kitchen table chewing, a plate of chocolate cookies in front of her.
“And?” Faith asked with a smile, “what do you think? What kind is it? ”She took a cookie too and took a bite. "I just can't tell."
“Chocolate,” Emily said happily.
"Hm - right, you might be right," laughed Faith.
She licked the sticky chocolate icing off her fingers with relish. Her gaze fell on the man who had stopped in the kitchen door and was watching her with a strange expression in his eyes. She stopped abruptly and a shiver ran down her spine. Hastily she turned around, opened the tap on the sink and washed her hands thoroughly while she considered what to do next.
She expected to meet her aunts. Instead, there was a strange man and a child in her parents' house whom she had never seen before. They were certainly not from St. Albury; Faith grew up here and knew almost everyone.
Before she could think twice, she heard the patter of footsteps in the hallway. She turned to see her mother's two sisters, Polly and Molly Graham, walk in.
The gray-haired, older women looked like one another, it was unmistakable that they were twin sisters. They beamed on their plump, rosy faces and fell one after the other around her neck.
"Faith, how nice that you're here, even if it's a sad occasion," said Molly, hugging her lovingly.
Faith's expression hardened. "It's okay," she said, glancing past Molly's shoulder in the direction of the man who had silently considered the whole scenario.
“Oh Faith,” Polly nodded quickly, “this is Dr. Lucian Clarke. - Dr. Clarke, our niece Faith Havering. "
"Dr. Clarke, ”Faith murmured, drawing a sense of foreboding through her. "What …?"
"And you must be Emily," Polly cut off immediately, and turned to the little girl. "It's nice that you're here, your dad has already told us a lot about you."
Faith's feeling that something was wrong only increased. She frowned, but could not say anything, because Emily now crossed her arms dismissively over her chest.
"He's not my dad," she pointed out accusingly, her large, light gray eyes swimming in tears again.
Christ, what's going on here? Faith shot through her head in exasperation.
She'd been in the car for almost seven hours, driving here from London to attend her father's funeral. Then she wanted to settle the estate, relax for a few days and think about how things should go with her life. Actually, she had planned to discuss everything with her aunts in peace.
Instead, she was now confronted with a man who looked like he had sprung from a cover of Men's Health and whose looks were thoroughly provocative. His little daughter - for she undoubtedly was - claimed he was not her father and seemed more than upset.
On top of that, Polly and Molly were obviously trying to hide something from her, and she knew it was somehow with this Dr. Clarke had to be busy.
"Why don't we have dinner first?" Suggested Molly cheerfully, taking a bowl of potato salad from the refrigerator. "We can discuss everything else later."
"That's a good idea," Polly agreed. She smiled kindly at Emily. "Do you want to help?"
The little one sniffed softly, but then nodded in agreement and crawled off the chair. While she was warming up a few sausages together with Polly, Faith watched with astonishment as Lucian Clarke went to the kitchen cupboard and took out plates with the utmost of course.
She found the fact that he set the table as a man less astonishing than the fact that he behaved as if he were at home here.
A touch of anger rose within her, but for the child's sake she refrained from commenting.
Shortly afterwards they were all sitting at the table and eating.
Polly and Molly took good care of Emily, while Faith poked sullenly at her plate. Again and again she felt Lucian Clarke's eyes on her and resolved to find out what was going on here immediately after the meal.
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