“Racked with guilt about his mother as well as about the way he had treated Maggie, he wouldn’t let himself celebrate. Instead he threw himself into his work, refusing all invitations to join the rest of the team on a trip to the nearest town for a pre-Christmas party. On Christmas Day itself, there was a barbecue. The few colleagues, who, like Ruairi, lived too far away to get home for the festive season, organized it and given the hot sun and the idyllic setting, he should have enjoyed eve...ry minute of it. He didn’t though because although he ate the food and tried to join in with the banter, his heart wasn’t in it. For the first time in his career he wanted to be somewhere else. At that very moment he would willingly have swapped the sea, sun and sand for a bitter wind and icy rain if it meant he could be with Maggie, and he sat, nursing a glass of beer and thinking about it while the Christmas celebrations went on around him. By the time the sun sank into the glittering sea he knew he had made a dreadful mistake, and by the time the Southern sky was filled with stars he was castigating himself for all kinds of a fool.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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