Wild Desire
Exactly one week before Bridget’s arrival Clare had taken a call from Angela, her oldest friend, just as she'd arrived home from work.
‘Hi, darling, how’s tricks?’ Angela always sounded chipper.
‘Don’t ask. I’m up to my eyes in building rubble.’
‘That’s what I thought. Do you fancy a bite to eat, and...’
‘And?’
‘A little diversion.’ Angela Barker was a journalist for a glossy magazine, a sinewy blonde whose long hair seemed to attract men like moths to a flame. Like moths too, many had got themselves badly burned. Angela was forthright and down-to-earth and not one to suffer fools, even handsome or rich fools, gladly. Her attitude to men was entirely pragmatic. If they gave her what she want