Sandra Marton - Say it with Diamonds...this Christmas - The Guardian's Forbidden Mistress / The Sicilian's Christmas Bride / Laying Down the Law

‘How about a glass of champagne?’ Nick suggested.

‘At seven-fifteen in the morning?’

‘Why not?’

‘Nick, you are terrible,’ she chided, but jokingly. ‘OK, champagne it is.’

‘And you, sir?’ the flight attendant asked.

‘I’ll have what she’s having.’

Sarah’s laugh enchanted him, as did she. There was no artifice in her, no pretend sophistication. She was a pleasant change from the kind of woman he usually dated.

Once she was handed her glass of champagne, Sarah turned back to gaze intently through the window, her nose close to the rim.

Truly, she was like a child on her first flight.

Nick stared at her as he waited for his drink. She looked about sixteen this morning, wearing little make-up, no jewellery and a simple black and white sun-dress. Her hairstyle was young too, the sides scooped up into schoolgirlish combs, the rest falling loosely down her back.

The flight attendant was probably thinking he was a shameless cradle-snatcher. Nick detected a knowing glint in the woman’s eyes as she handed him his glass of champagne.

Not that he cared what she thought, or anyone else for that matter. Nick had become so besotted by Sarah that he was already considering extending the length of their affair.

Of course, a month of non-stop sex with her at his holiday house on Happy Island might return him to a wiser course of action. He really hadn’t had enough time to burn out his lust for Sarah since the first night they’d spent together.

Apart from anything, they’d been very busy, visiting Flora at the hospital and seeing to her health needs.

Fortunately, the specialist had located the source of the angina, a minor blockage in one artery that had been successfully cleared without the need for open-heart surgery. When the doctor had suggested a holiday for his quickly recovering patient, Nick had offered Jim and Flora his penthouse on the Gold Coast, which was fully serviced, with meals readily available, either in the restaurant downstairs or delivered to their apartment door. They’d jumped at the chance of an all-expenses-paid jaunt and Nick had seen them off at the airport three days ago, New Year’s Eve.

Which had left him alone in the house with Sarah.

As Nick settled back to sip his champagne, his mind drifted back to the thirty-first of December …

He’d chilled some white wine, ordered in a five-star meal from a local restaurant, then set everything up on the balcony to the master bedroom, the perfect setting for a romantic, candlelit dinner. The perfect setting for New Year’s Eve as well, with the uninterrupted view of Sydney Harbour—the water, the city and the bridge—which was always the showpiece of the fireworks.

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