Charlotte Hawkes – Unwrapping The Neurosurgeon's Heart (страница 10)
His head turned to look at her but she kept staring straight ahead, a tight smile straining her lips.
‘Around the hospital, no doubt.’ She had no idea how she injected that note of buoyancy into her voice. ‘Or maybe I just have one of those faces.’
‘Oh, no, my dear, you do not have
‘More like a screen icon,’ her husband agreed, then his face cleared and Anouk’s stomach plummeted. ‘Like Annalise Hartwood.’
‘Annalise Hartwood,’ the woman echoed delightedly. ‘And she had a daughter...what was her name, Jonathon? Was it Noukie?’
How she’d always hated that nickname. She was sure her mother had known it, too. It was why Annalise had used it all the more.
‘Noukie...’ He nodded slowly. ‘Yes, I think it might have been. You’re Noukie Hartwood.’
As if she didn’t already know! They said it as if it were a nugget of gold, a little bit of information that they were giving her.
Anouk wanted to shout and bellow. Instead, she stood exactly where she was, her smile not slipping, muscles not twitching.
‘Anouk Hart.’ She tried to smile. ‘Yes.’
‘My goodness, I can hardly believe it. Annalise was such a screen icon in my day. But, my dear, you don’t have any American accent at all, do you? How long have you been over here?’
How it hurt to keep smiling.
‘My friend and I came to university over here...’ she paused as if she were searching for the memory, when the truth was she knew practically to the week, the day ‘...so a little over ten years ago.’
The moment her mother had died and Anouk had finally felt free of her. What kind of person did that make her?
But then, after her mother’s deathbed revelation, who could blame her? To realise that her mother, her grandmother, had been lying to her about her father for eighteen years.
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