The Marriage Betrayal (2011)
“‘You could do with a break after all the studying you’ve been doing.’ Unsurprised that the older woman had taken only the most positive view of the invitation, Tally swallowed back the admission that her father’s phone call and request had come as an unwelcome surprise. She pushed her honey-blonde curls off her brow with a rueful hand, her green eyes wary. ‘It’s not quite that simple. I got the impression that my father only wants me to go so that I can police Cosima’s every move—’ ‘My goodness...,’ Binkie cut in with a frown of dismay. ‘Did he say so?’ ‘Not exactly.’ ‘Well, then, aren’t you being a bit too imaginative?’ Binkie asked in gentle reproof, her kindly brown gaze resting on the younger woman’s troubled face. ‘Granted your father rarely gets in touch but why immediately assume the worst of his motives? Maybe he simply wants his two daughters to get to know each other.’ ‘I’m twenty years old and Cosima’s seventeen—if that’s what he wants why would he have waited so long?’ Tally responded wryly because, after a lifetime of disappointments and hurtful rejections, she was a dyed in the wool cynic when it came to either of her parents.MoreLess
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