6 An Autumn Crush by Milly Johnson

Author:Milly Johnson [Johnson, Milly]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction, General
ISBN: 9781849832045
Google: pKoFy-PWm7gC
Amazon: B005H2HOQY
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2011-09-28T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 41

Steve walked around the brand new Mercedes two-seater sports car. He could barely stop the purr that was rising in his throat as the salesman pointed out all the features, knowing that this sale was in the bag. It was the sort of car that would draw Chianti Parkin to him like a sex magnet. Except for some inexplicable reason, she wasn’t even on his mind as he studied its features. He was thinking of Juliet sitting in the passenger seat, hair streaming behind her as they tore along a beach road in the sunshine.

‘Will you be wanting finance?’ the salesman asked.

‘Nope,’ replied Steve. ‘I’ll pay for it by Switch.’ Steve had been saving up for a long time towards this moment – sailing out of here with a swanky car that he could truly call his. But the salesman was too cockily confident that he’d sealed the deal, so Steve tagged on a very casual: ‘That is, if I take it.’

‘How can you not?’ laughed Mr Smug the Salesman.

‘Because I’m weighing it up against a Porsche and a Jag that I’ve test driven, that’s why,’ fibbed Steve convincingly.

‘No comparison with this baby,’ said Mr Smug.

‘Oh, I beg to differ,’ said Steve. ‘The Jag was a very comfortable drive in particular. Smooth as silk. And it clung to the road around corners.’

‘Ah, but how much do you really know about these top of the range—?’

‘Quite a lot,’ interrupted Steve. ‘I’ve been repairing and souping up cars since I was eleven.’ A fact that was quite true. He had had a Saturday job with a rough-arse of a man on their estate who owned a car workshop. He didn’t mention that a lot of the top-of-the-range cars which came through the doors were ringed, resprayed and sold on in the dead of night or souped up for robberies.

The young salesman’s oily smile trembled on his lips as he began to realize that he might be out of his depth slightly here if they started trading car facts.

‘Perhaps you’d like to take our model for a spin,’ he said. ‘Or we have a scheme where you can hire a similar model – at a very reasonable rate – for up to a week in order to fully appreciate the effect a car of this quality will have on your life.’

‘That sounds great. I’ll be in touch,’ said Steve, holding his hand out to shake and signify that he was leaving Mr Smug for now.

He swaggered out of the car showroom and went back to his vehicle outside the empty building next door that had a huge flapping For Sale notice nailed to the wall. Then he remembered what he had to tell Guy and rang him straight away.

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