Margaret Way - Secrets Of The Outback
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“I’m sorry. That’s tragic.” He drank a little of his martini, set it down. “It must have affected your whole world.”
“Of course.” Jewel didn’t touch her drink.
“So you sought to correct the past?”
Jewel suddenly reached flash point. She rose from her seat like the jet from the sparkling fountain. “My father was killed. It was a tragedy. Forgive me if I can’t speak about it.”
She left him sitting at the table, indifferent to the fascinated eyes that watched her progress across the room and into the lobby.
CHAPTER FOUR
IT WAS A LONG TRIP HOME. Two hours in the plane, another hour before she reached Hungerford by minibus, then the town taxi out to the house. The heat did not help her mood. She had almost forgotten how hot it was North of Capricorn, how humid. The driver left her at the gate. She picked up her overnight bag and began the trek through the garden, and its extraordinary lush beauty began the ritual soothing.
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