One-Man Woman. Carole Mortimer

nodded. ‘I believe they left you and Beth in charge here after your father’s illness?’

      ‘Yes.’ She replied warily this time; he had been busy doing his homework about them, hadn’t he?

      ‘So you and Beth must have come to rely on each other a lot over the last couple of years?’ he ground out harshly.

      She and Beth had always been close. At this precise moment Ellie felt as if she was under attack—and she wasn’t exactly sure why. What difference did it make to this man whether or not she had been at Beth and James’s wedding? What business was it of his anyway?

      She shrugged. ‘Beth understood why I couldn’t be at the wedding.’