Masters And Lovers 1-4
Chapter 74
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Later I find him at his desk, holding a picture frame. Georgie’s face looks out, a little blurry at the edges from where I think he must have blown up the photo to fit. Edging a hip over a corner of the desk, I look at the face of my Master’s daughter.
“Are you alright?”
“Just remembering,” he says.
“Where is she now?”
“I don’t know. I’ve not seen her in a long time. She was working towards a PhD around the time I met you, but that’s the last I heard from her.”
“You miss her.” It’s not a question.
“Yes, I miss her.”
“And her mother? Your ex-wife.”
He snorts. “No, I don’t miss Marlene. That’s good riddance as far as I’m concerned.”
“Is there anything I can do to help?”
His eyes rise to mine and his head tilts. “How could you possibly help on this, Charlotte? When a child turns from you, how could she be turned back?”
His eyes droop, his sadness so palpable….
Dropping to my knees, I place my hand on his. “Master, you gave me everything. I want to give you everything.”
you can
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James
getting on my
Michael’s brother and it’s good of him to offer so much help with the work in the grounds, but his eyes follow me. He stays for a
house to go to work, Charlotte, as ever, walks like queen of the world. I am slightly behind her, my hand in the small
and smiles. His smile withers
make no move to take my hand
would look
side and open the door ahead of her, breaking my touch
when that bastard goes
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and I are never going to
I should try to build some
some of the pressure off
day, probably one of the last hot days. September is a lovely month, but it
spade surveying his handiwork: the last of the veg beds Charlotte wanted. With the brambles removed, the earth turned and cleaned of the last of the briar and nettle roots,
as I can get to a peace offering. “It’s good of you to spend
the beer can over the back of his neck, then under his
I can sympathise with him. I huff “Yes, I get that. It was a bit like that for me as
“Oh? Big family?”
families. No one
of the