He squealed and fist pumped the air before throwing his arms around her, giving a breath-stopping hug. When he let her go, there were tears in her eyes.
“Oh now look what I’ve done. Made you cry.” He looked at Adam. “She’s all yours, big guy. I don’t deal well with tears. Later’s honey, I need a drink and dessert.” Jeff hurried off to his table, weaving his way between chairs.
“You set this whole night up, didn’t you?” Lena wiped a finger under her eyes, stopping the tears that threatened to spill down over her heated cheeks.
“Not really. I did suggest to my father that he try your new restaurant and make the effort to see where his son now lived and worked.” He kissed the spot under her eye where it was damp. “Now we’ve worked out the reason behind the things he did, I decided I owed it to my father to try and understand. Not that we’ll ever agree on a lot of things, gotta give it a go.”
Yeah, and he did the best for Simon in the long run. Even I can figure that out now. “And he just happens to know Jeff? Sounds a bit convenient to me.”
“Lawyers don’t believe in convenience. It’s a fact that they hang out in the same group of socialites, but I didn’t suggest he bring him. That was entirely my father’s idea.”
“You are one special man, you know that, right?” She reached up and slid her arms around his neck. “I need to get back to work before my customers complain.”
“So do I take it you and I will be celebrating on our own tonight?”
“Yes, if that’s what you really want.”
“Lena, that’s all I’ve wanted from the moment I set eyes on you trying to sooth Kyle’s frustrations at the bottom of the farm the day you moved up here.”
“It’s a date then.” She kissed his lips and turned away from him to return to her kitchen.
THE END
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Volume Five
Chapter 1
A thump sounded on the bedroom door, jarring her from a deep sleep.
"Go away." Samantha Grace Rose Darling groaned into her pillow.
"Sami, phone."
"Tell them to buzz off and let me sleep." She threw a pillow at the door seconds before it eased open and her brother poked his head in the room. "Garth, I'm warning you, go away."
He sighed and she waited for the usual whine to follow. "There's an old guy on the phone. Said he wants to speak to you."
"Tell him I'm not here." She rolled over, brushed the hair from her face and then glared at him through half closed eyes.
"I did but he insists on speaking to you. Said he wasn't going to go away until he does."
She groaned, pushed her blanket off with her hand and slowly slid out of bed. With languid grace Sami advanced on her brother intent on doing bodily harm to whoever it was who had the audacity to disturb her sleep. Holding out the phone, Garth waited for her to take it before he backed out of the room and quietly shut the door, leaving her alone.
"This better be bloody good. I pulled a double shift last night and I'm freaking tired."
Walking over to the window, she pushed aside the faded curtain and flinched when the bright Alice Springs sunlight filled her room, scorching her tired eyes. She promptly dropped the curtain into place wishing she'd left it alone. Sami rubbed her eyes and waited.
"Am I talking to Miss Samantha Grace Rose Darling?"
"Yeah." She dropped down to the edge of her bed, her fingers tracing a bruise on her leg from when she had bumped into a tray of glasses last night. I am such a klutz.
"Miss Darling, my name is Rupert Newland. I'm a solicitor with Newland, Newland and Cooper in Singleton, New South Wales."
She spat out a laugh before covering her mouth with the heel of her hand.
"I'm glad I amuse you. Now if you would be so kind as to contain yourself, I have news for you."
The voice on the other end of the phone was clipped and precise.
"I am acting on behalf of your grandfather's estate with regard to his final will and testament."
"I don't know who you're talking about. I don't have any family." Names ran through her mind but grandparents didn't come into the picture she had tucked away in her memory. "Nope. No grandparents I can lay claim to, sorry mate. You obviously have the wrong girl."
"Miss Darling, I have checked the facts and you are indeed the granddaughter of my late client. I need you to could come into the office for the reading of the will."
"Where did you say you were again?" Sami kicked through the pile of clothes on the bedroom floor and picked up the crumpled jeans from yesterday. She tucked the phone between her ear and shoulder to hold it firmly while she pulled her jeans on. One foot after the other she slid each leg into the jeans and yanked them up, wiggling her
