‘Are you sure I won't be bothering you at all?’
‘No, not at all,’ he said with genuine warmth in his voice. ‘Come on over now, and we can eat lunch together. I’ll get everything ready and expect you to be here in just a few minutes.’
He gave her his address, and she hurried along, readying herself to leave... She had not been expecting him to agree to see her so quickly, but she felt thrilled that he was willing and able. She left a message with Granger, knowing her father would be concerned about her when he woke to find her gone.
Simon Forrester’s house was massive and clearly much too large for one man. He must have had a wife and family, though he hadn’t given that impression on the phone.
But he had neither wife nor family and actually lived in this big house all alone. It didn
