Deception and Desire (69 page)

Maggie crossed the living room, looking around and wondering why the house that had been her home ever since she had come to Corfu suddenly looked so alien to her. There was really nothing of herself here, she thought; she had tried so hard to adapt to the Greek way of life, but it had not worked out. But suddenly it was almost unimportant, a mere curtain-raiser to the rest of her life. Only one thing was important now, and that was being with Mike.

She crossed to the telephone, picked up the receiver and dialled the international code for England. The bell at the other end seemed to ring for ever and she began to think he was not there. But with a sort of desperate optimism she waited and waited, praying that the line would not break up, praying that he would answer.

When she heard his voice her knees went weak. Dear God, she loved him!

‘Mike?' she said. ‘Mike – it's me, Maggie. I've just decided. I'm coming home.'

She held her breath then, half afraid of what he would say. When he replied his words were typically phlegmatic, but even across the thousands of miles of telephone wires she heard the genuine emotion in his voice.

‘Thank God for that, Maggie. I'll be waiting.'

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