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The Secrets of Brinkley Ridge
Date: 9/6/2015, Categories: Taboo, Author: TheTravellingMan, Rating: 17, Source: LushStories
luxurious, yet barely lived in. Cally’s Dad was a big stink in a big firm making pots of cash and worked away a lot. Eva, his wife, was never around much either. Much of what Cally revealed about her life focussed on her animus for Eva. If it was to be believed, he figured that she was a formidable woman. Anyone that was a match for Cally would have to be very tough indeed. In such a large, empty and silent house - you could almost sense another presence. In the kitchen, he froze as a cold panic enveloped him. There was another presence and a fixed steely stare met his wide-open eyes. Sat at the kitchen table, her expression was impervious. A sense of anger was a reasonable guess. “Hello.” He could feel a scorching heat rise in his face. “Erm, Hi, you, erm, must be Eva?” “I am and you are?” “Erm, Scott, erm…. Hi…” “Well Cally doesn’t have a boyfriend…. so you must be some bizarre kind of burglar?” The silence between them only intensified his sense of awkwardness. “Erm, we, erm, this is so embarrassing. You were supposed to be back later.” “My horse lost a shoe so I decided to come back early but that’s not the point.” That explained the tweed jacket, white cotton blouse and her tied back blond hair. He could make out the tight cream coloured jodhpurs and knee length riding boots. If this was her expression of anger, it made her attractive face smoulder with menace. “So boy, she’s gone to France and left you here I suppose?” He rolled with her tense inflexion of the word ...