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Send And Receive Chapter 1
Angie Wilson twirled her wine glass as she glanced at the faces around her. Everyone looked either suitably solemn, or suitably sad. She hoped her face was schooled into the suitably solemn mould, because she certainly didn’t feel sad.
Perhaps that made her a bad person, Angie thought, but you couldn’t make yourself feel sad when you didn’t feel sad. Could you? Even though she had just come from her great-aunt’s funeral.
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Watch a Novel Grow - Chapter 1
My heroine meets the man who is destined to change her life for ever… but is he the one?
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The Curse of the Blood Diamond Part 2 Chapter 12
“You’re looking well, dear,” Frances commented when Esson opened the cottage door. “You spend so much time holed away here, we hardly know what you look like anymore.”
“Forgive me for not having been more sociable. I am keeping myself busy while Hector is away.”
Hector and Royston had taken a ten-day trip into the interior on “men’s business”. Esson knew their trips had something to do with ivory purchases and big game hunting but, when she asked Hector, he merely replied: “A bit of fishing, a bit of hunting, terribly boring for you, my dear.”
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The Curse of the Blood Diamond Part 2 Chapter 11
Esson was being driven to town, accompanied by a bald and rather menacing fellow named Jake.
It had taken skilful persuasion, but Hector had agreed to humour her whim of gathering a new bookshelf for the cottage. Was this to be her life? She hardly recognised herself – unable to stand up to her mother-in-law, wary of her own husband, and what he was capable of.
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The Curse of the Blood Diamond Part 2 Chapter 10
“Ah, my bride returns,” Hector bent over Esson.
Esson was confused. It was the morning after her wedding and she was lying in her marital bed, naked. Her wedding dress was draped over a chair in one corner but she could hardly recall the evening.
Her last memory was of Hector suggesting she and Elizabeth accompany him to their wing to watch the sunset. And of three glasses of Cognac being poured. Apart from the confusion of memory loss, Esson was in terrible pain.
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The Curse of the Blood Diamond Part 2 Chapter 9
For the first hour of the reception she hardly saw him. He was constantly engaged in conversation and didn’t once look around to see where his bride might be. Hector was quite tipsy when the time came for speeches.
“I prised her from Hamlet’s clutches,” he said as titters rippled though the crowd. Esson felt humiliated, but she smiled weakly at his attempts at humour. He took another gulp of his whisky.
He regaled them with the “edges” he would “smooth out” in his new bride. Like another Shakespearean bridegroom, he would tame her. The audience was howling with laughter.
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Blood Diamond Part 2 Chapter 8
The newspaper billboards all over Johannesburg apparently hailed: “SHAW IS THE GRANDEST WEDDING”.
When she looked out of her window on her wedding day, she saw no billboards. She only knew of them at all from her personal maid, Charity. Neither did she see any of the pedlars and prostitutes on Pritchard Street. She missed them. This was so beautiful, but she missed them.
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Blood Diamond Part 2 Chapter 7
Esson felt a weight of loneliness as she opened the door to her room. She had not slept here since William’s opening night and it smelt of closed windows and neglect.
She undressed, her red velvet dress slipping to the floor. She stepped out of it as though from a pool of blood. She removed the pins from her hair and climbed into bed. It was a warm night and the fan overhead washed cool waves over her naked form. She thought about the party, but her mind refused to rid itself of the image of William kissing his leading lady. She wanted to kill him. She wanted to hurt him as much as he had hurt her.
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Blood Diamond Part 2 Chapter 6
It was the evening of the Shaws’ party and Esson arrived in her carriage, passing through the imposing gates of the estate once more.
She felt more composed now. Her rage had not abated, nor had the pain she felt. But she knew she was a survivor, and that she would make sure she got through this, as she had got through the loss of her parents.
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