Almost a Lady (2008)
Almost a Lady
“The deep blue of the Gulf of Lions glittered way beneath them and the hot, dry Provençal air was filled with the scent of herbs crushed beneath the hooves of their horses. They rode through small villages of white-washed cottages, their red roofs glowing under the sun’s relentless gaze, the massed colors of bougainvillea dazzling the eye. They rode through sandy-soiled vineyards of low-growing knotted vines carefully tended by wizened, deeply tanned farmers, who seemed to have developed a perma...nent stoop from their work.
They began the descent down to the coast as the afternoon waned. Meg was bone-tired after eight hours of riding, but she thought her exhaustion was more mental than physical. The strain of their silence was intense and her own thoughts were too fragmented, too jumbled for any sort of clarity.
She knew she needed to be thinking of a way out of this situation, one that didn’t involve Cosimo, but she could come up with nothing. She needed him to help her get home. Hard as she tried, she could reach only one conclusion.MoreLess
They began the descent down to the coast as the afternoon waned. Meg was bone-tired after eight hours of riding, but she thought her exhaustion was more mental than physical. The strain of their silence was intense and her own thoughts were too fragmented, too jumbled for any sort of clarity.
She knew she needed to be thinking of a way out of this situation, one that didn’t involve Cosimo, but she could come up with nothing. She needed him to help her get home. Hard as she tried, she could reach only one conclusion.MoreLess
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