Logan drove back to the store where he got the beautiful bottle of wine he didn’t have a chance to give to his mother before she kicked them out. Oh well. He knows someone who’ll appreciate it even more. Franny secured the second lock, hurriedly, she has ten minutes to make the bus otherwise she’ll…
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‘Granny’s here.’ Logan exchanged a look with Brodie; he did not expect their grandmother to be here, not least because it’s her daughter’s birthday and the world knows there is no love lost there. Lady Paula Sterling; the ice queen. ‘Nice of you to join us Logan. You’re very late.’ ‘My apologies. Long day at…
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‘Excuse me could I trouble you for some help with Champagne please?’ Logan was running late for his mother’s birthday dinner and no question he will hear a lot about it for the next twelve months where it will be brought up at the next birthday shindig, as a reminder. Still, to turn up without…
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Franny pulls into the driveway of her home in Chelsea, and only now is she able to exhale; she has been holding her breath since she walked into the restaurant and saw him again. The first time in three years… 29th of February, she knew she had to do it. It was the only day…
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Happiness. This is as simple as she can put it. Happiness in its truest form. It shouldn’t feel this real or this beautiful but it does. In two days it does, and it might be a new feeling, but she believes this will last a life time, each feeling better than the last. This happiness…
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Serena, Beatrix, Bella and Sloane, daughters of Briar and Stephen Rhodes, they grew up in The Village, a small commune in the Cotwolds. Serena, the oldest, is a corporate lawyer at an investment bank in Mayfair. Oxford educated, for both her degree and masters, and a PhD from Cambridge, she is the consummate overachiever. She…
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‘What are we doing for the holidays?’ ‘I don’t know. What do you want to do?’ Sloane looks at her husband as she gets dressed. He is still in bed, no signs of getting out of it. ‘You’re really not going into the office today?’ ‘Nope. You don’t have to go in too, you know.’…
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‘Mommy are you and daddy getting a divorce?’ Caroline almost ran the red light when Olive asked that question. ‘Where on earth did you hear that?’ ‘Lily was talking about her parents getting one and she said she heard that you and daddy could be getting one.’ ‘What’s a divorce?’ Xander asks ‘Nothing you have…
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