Bay Of Rainbows – Dana James

‘Are you telling me you don’t want to get married?’ He was openly sceptical. ‘I might, eventually,’ she allowed. ‘But right now I prefer freedom and independence.’ His mouth twisted in a derisive smile. ‘Oh, you’re one of the “love them and leave them” types. Get what you can and move on. I’ve known a few like you.’

The terrible injustice of his bitter words, echoing Giles’s cruel slander, stabbed her to the heart. Had they been anywhere else but on the sleekly beautiful boat she would have rounded on Nathan with a devastating tirade and cut the ground from under his feet. But concentrating as she was on simply surviving, she had neither time nor energy enough.

‘Why not?’ she flung back at him. ‘It’s what men have been doing for centuries.’ She drew in a shaky breath. The look on his face made her recoil inwardly. But though her cheeks flamed she held his gaze. ‘Why are you asking about the headsail?’ she enquired, steering the conversation on to less painful ground. ‘Is something wrong?’ ‘One of the ropes seems to be jammed.’ Though his tone was abrupt, Polly sensed a lessening of tension in him at the change of subject. She was overwhelmed by a mixture of terror and relief as he left her at the wheel and went forward to free the line.

How long could she keep up the pretence of being a competent sailor? She risked a glance back over her shoulder. The towering cliffs of Gibraltar were still all too clearly visible. She gritted her teeth. She had to keep going. A few minutes later Nathan jumped down into the cockpit once more and hauled out the roller-reefed headsail.

As it filled, Seawitch leaped forward. Nathan’s gaze flicked over sails, lines, winches and compass, in a swift visual check. Polly half turned, ready to return control of the boat to him. ‘Right, I’ll leave you to it, then.’

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data available This eBook edition published by AudioGO Ltd, Bath, 2012. Published by arrangement with the Author Epub ISBN 9781471307522 U.K. Hardcover ISBN 978 1 405 64076 3 U.K. Softcover ISBN 978 1 405 64077 0 Copyright © 1993 by Dana James All characters in this book have no existence outside the imagination of the author and have no relation whatsoever to anyone bearing the same name or names.

They are not even distantly inspired by any individual known or unknown to the author, and all incidents are pure invention. All rights reserved. Jacket Illustration © AudioGO Ltd 1kitap1.com/en CHAPTER ONE Outside in the April sunshine the temperature was over seventy degrees, but Polly felt chilled as she looked with rising desperation towards the window. Out there lay freedom.

In the streaked and dusty glass she glimpsed her reflection and saw a drawn elfin face and green eyes huge with anxiety. Her dark curly hair, cut short for convenience rather than fashion, clung like damp feathers to her forehead and temples. This couldn’t be happening. Not to her. Gleaming like a huge silver bird, a passenger jet approached the runway which pointed like a finger out into the sparkling sapphire waters of Gibraltar Bay.

Engines roaring, it swooped in to land, braking hard as its wheels touched the wide runway which was crossed halfway along by the single road connecting the British colony to the Spanish mainland. This was the fourth plane Polly had heard arrive since she had been literally dragged from the boat, marched along the marina, and bundled into the white-painted Customs building. ‘Try to see the situation from my point of view, Miss Levington.’ On the far side of the desk the shirt-sleeved Customs officer leaned back in his chair and lit a cigarette, blowing a thin plume of smoke towards the cracked and yellowing ceiling.

Stockily built, with unshockable brown eyes and black hair liberally laced with grey, he spoke in a tone of weary cynicism. ‘Do you seriously expect me to believe you knew nothing about it?’

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