Wild Melody

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Author: Sara Craven
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    the girl in the beauty salon had shown her, and her lips glowed a pale rose.
    A small evening bag, studded with crystals, lay on the dressing table. She
    picked it up, and putting the long stole that matched the dress over her arm,
    went down the hall to the room where she had met Jason Lord.
    He was standing leaning on the mantelpiece, with a glass in his hand. He
    looked up as she entered, and she paused nervously waiting for some barbed
    remark. But the silence stretched on endlessly, and she felt oddly
    disappointed.
    'Would you like a drink?' There was a formal note in his voice. 'No—thank
    you.'
    'Right.' He finished what was left in his glass and put it down. 'We'll be off,
    then.' He took the stole from her and placed it round her shoulders. She was
    acutely aware of his touch on her bare skin and moved away restively.
    They drove for a long time in silence. Catriona kept stealing looks at her
    companion, but his eyes were firmly fixed on the road and all she saw was
    his hard profile. He too had a chin, she noticed, and a nasty habit of
    expecting his own way to match it. Which reminded her of the worry that
    had been nagging her all afternoon even through her bewildered enjoyment
    of choosing the dress, and its underwear and accessories, and the hair-do
    and beauty treatment that followed.
    'This dress is outrageous,' she informed him.

    'I wouldn't say so.' He still did not look at her. 'A little more revealing than
    you're probably used to, that's all.'
    'I didn't mean that, and you know it,' said Catriona hotly. 'I mean the price.'
    'Don't worry about it,' he told her lightly. 'After all, it's in the family, isn't it?
    And Jeremy's mother has an account there, as you may have gathere/d. We
    could charge it to her, if you'd rather.'
    'We'll do no such thing-—' Catriona began, then saw his lips twitch. 'You're
    laughing at me again,' she said uncertainly.
    'A little,' he said. 'Why not forget about the cost of it all, and start thinking
    about what you're going to say to Jeremy. Surely that's more important than
    anything else. Concentrate on the dialogue, darling, and forget the props.
    They're just incidental.'
    'I wish you wouldn't call me darling!'
    'I know you do.' He sent her a swift glance, one mocking brow raised. 'And
    so—darling—I do it all the more.'
    'Just to annoy me?'
    'You do rise to the bait so beautifully—and so regularly,' he said.
    Catriona lifted her chin and stared through the windscreen into the
    darkness. Jeremy's parents, she had learned, lived just outside Staines near
    the river. She supposed that one day she would be familiar with this route,
    and with the house they were bound for. Now she felt totally at sea, and it
    frightened her to realise that she was wholly dependent on this stranger
    beside her. After all, she only had his word for it that there was a party at all.
    He could be taking her anywhere.
    The car slowed steadily, then turned through a pair of white gates and up a
    shallow drive.

    Catriona saw the lights of a large house and heard the steady beat of music
    close at hand. There were a lot of other cars parked in the drive and on the
    gravelled sweep in front of the house, and she sat quietly as Jason
    manoeuvred his vehicle into one of the remaining spaces.
    When he opened the door for her, she sat still for a moment, marshalling her
    courage.
    'Cold feet?' he inquired.
    'I'm perfectly warm, thanks,' she returned, deliberately misunderstanding
    him. His hand closed round hers as he helped her out of the car, and for a
    moment she almost returned the pressure of his fingers. But just in time she
    remembered who he was, and the treatment she had been forced to put up
    with from him, and snatched her hand away.
    'Come along then, Miss Muir,' he said, and she was startled to hear the harsh
    note back in his voice. 'This is what you wanted. Make the most of it.'
    Inside the house, Catriona was startled to find a uniformed maid waiting
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