Snippet from Unspoken
Alice is 18. Godfrey is a 38 year old married lawyer. He has been helping Alice set up a trust for the family farm to stop it falling into the hands of the jealous Frank.
‘Well, that’s about it, Alice, our business is concluded. I do hope we will meet again soon.’
‘Wait, please, don’t go yet,’ I almost begged.
He shrugged. ‘I’m not in a rush. What did you want to discuss?’
‘Dance with me,’ I said.
‘I’m sorry?’
‘Dance with me, before you go. We’ve had lunch, tea, Martini’s, but we’ve never danced.’
He looked around. ‘Do you have a radio or something?’
‘Much better than that,’ I said. ‘Wait here, please don’t leave, I’ll be back in two shakes.’
I rushed from the room and grabbed my beautiful, blue gramophone from its place next to the tallboy, then I picked up my record case, and returned to the front room, closing the door behind me with my heel. To my intense relief, he was still there.
I set up the machine and selected Fred Astaire, singing Night and Day. I lowered the arm onto the record, then turned around with my arms open wide.
Godfrey smiled at me. ‘I love this song.’
We danced slowly, and properly to begin with, one of his hands in mine, one on the back of my shoulder, but as the dance progressed, I moved his hand down to my waist and put both of mine on his back. My breasts brushed against his chest and a tingle, like a tiny, electric shock, ran down my spine. My eyes sought his and I pressed even closer. He attempted to lose eye contact but mine must have contained powerful, eyeball-magnets, because his gaze only left mine for a millisecond.
‘Alice. This can’t happen,’ he said, huskily.
I snuggled into his chest and laid my head against his shoulder. ‘I know,’ I replied softly.
‘It’s wrong. I’m old enough to be your father,’ he said, brushing his lips against my neck.
‘I know,’ I repeated.
His hot breath breezed past my ear, then he kissed my neck gently, from the ear to clavicle.
I thought my knees were going to give way. I pulled my head back and looked him in the eye again.
‘Alice… I’ll hate myself…’
‘I won’t,’ I said, truthfully. I moved my head forward hesitantly, then his lips found mine and my heart melted.
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I was so devastated when I finished the fourth book of the Unspoken series. The fifth book, Hopes and Fears, didn’t fit in to the series at all! I really enjoyed the first four books and it’s bad enough if the last book in the series is unavailable , but for it not even to fit the ending of the family saga, didn’t make sense to me at all! I thought Jessica was going to get her revenge on Leonora?
Very disappointed. Plus you need to find a different editor. There were so many grammatical errors, it was really amateurish.
Sorry
I’m sorry you felt let down by Hopes and Fears. The book is a spin off from the Unspoken series and is meant to be a link between Unspoken and the Amy Rowlings mystery series in which Alice appears as Amy’s best friend. Amy is the star of the show in that series however. The next real Unspoken book is progressing and will hopefully be released towards the end of the year. It is called Relative Strangers and like Hopes and Fear it is a Christmas themed book, but this time set in the modern era with the usual flashbacks of Alice on the farm.
That sounds interesting. Thank you for your reply. I look forward to reading it. I’ll look for the Amy books.
Gale
Thank so much, Gale. I’m so pleased you enjoyed the first four books in the Unspoken series. You may hopefully think better of Hopes and Fears when you read the Amy Rowlings mysteries. I hope so anyway. Apologies for the tardiness in writing the next Unspoken. I have to work to deadlines with my publisher and the audiobook company for the Amy series and they have had to take priority. Book six, Encore For Murder is due out in late Spring.