Too late FOR LOVE?
As Laura put the ‘No vacancy’ sign up, she couldn’t help thinking it summed up her heart. No room inside.
Her invisible internal sign had been there since Don broke off their relationship exactly two years ago today, on her 30th birthday.
They’d met at university, where he was studying law and she was studying business. Don had seemed like the man of her dreams. But he’d changed, becoming increasingly ambitious. He’d moved to London to further his career, without even talking it over first. Then he’d phoned on her birthday to say he was seeing someone else.
Laura shivered involuntarily and wrapped her cardigan more tightly around herself as she remembered the pain of that betrayal. ‘I won’t make that mistake ever again,’ she promised herself.
With the weather getting better, her guest house by the lake was proving popular. For the first time, she was fully booked. She had a stream of holidaymakers under her roof – interesting people, sharing their life experiences.
She’d called her B&B ‘Sailors’ Haven’ – the name her parents had laughingly given the house all those years ago when they’d first bought it. There had been a popular boathouse nearby.
These days, the boathouse stood empty, as it had for the past few years, since the owner had moved.
There were still plenty of holidaymakers enjoying the lake, but they now
