Chapter 23

The next day I was on my way with Marc in the car and the nurse who accompanied us was a woman of fifty, her comfortable body seated in her blue uniform her shoes were very formal but she was very stern with Marc. And I was very pleased with Cathy’s arrangement as I had never expected her to act immediately.

Marc looked at me as the nurse was put into another car which followed us along. “I have to thank you for my new nurse, I gather, or was Mom making that up?”

I lifted my chin in defense not letting him see how pleased I was and said. “I don’t know what you’re talking about.” I lied, and he gave me a quick glittering smile.

“No!” He exclaimed.

I gazed looking out of the window and his hand covered my own but I did not say anything to him and stared continuously out of the window. But when his hand held mine a shiver ran through my whole body. For a few breathtaking minutes, we just sat like that but my body was responding in quite a different manner. His t