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Sea of Lost Love -
extract
To be published March 2007
Monty watched his daughter from the boat. Her slim,
elegant shape reminded him of Pamela when she was young. They stood
in the same way: thrusting their weight onto one leg, hand confidently
placed on the waist, thus emphasising the feminine curve of the
hip to its best advantage. They were very much alike, although
Celestria wasn’t so hard. She was soft, like clay ready to
be moulded, and the hand that styled her would decide her final
texture. It wouldn’t be his hand. It never had been. He had
spent too much time abroad, trying to keep all the balls in the
air, trying to be everything to everyone, spreading himself so
thinly that sometimes, in the silence of his dreams he was no longer
sure who he really was. But now wasn’t the time to indulge
in sentiment. He had three excited boys in his boat and a sea full
of fish and crabs to catch. He watched until Celestria had blended
into the sand and for a moment his heart, once so carefully contained,
swelled with regret. But things were now out of his control. He
was no longer a free man. It was time to reap what he had sowed.
His gaze fell onto the water, momentarily hypnotised by the murky
green depths below him.
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