A Bride at His Bidding by Michelle Smart

Author:Michelle Smart [Smart, Michelle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarlequinUKLtd
Published: 2017-12-31T23:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHT

THE ELEGANT FIGURE stepped out of the revolving doors with an older woman a pace behind her, the two women chatting between themselves.

The older woman was the first to spot him standing against a black Bentley watching them. She nudged Carrie and nodded in his direction.

He raised a hand in greeting.

Carrie’s eyes found his. Even with the distance separating them Andreas could see the high colour slashing her cheeks as she mimicked his greeting, then used the same hand to smooth a loose strand of hair that had fallen from the knot it had been tied into off her face, then to smooth her long cream overcoat. Her movements were rapid but her colleague noticed, a smile spreading on her face as she watched Carrie subconsciously groom herself.

After a beat, Carrie said something to her colleague, then walked steadily to him, chin aloft, her right hand clutching the strap of her handbag to her chest.

‘This is a pleasant surprise,’ she said when she reached him, speaking in a voice loud enough that those of her nearby colleagues, all hurrying to the nearby underground station in their eagerness to get home, would be able to hear. The inflection of surprise she put in it was a masterstroke.

Andreas had been waiting by his car for twenty minutes. He estimated a dozen of the people who had come out of the building that housed the Daily Times had done a double take at his presence outside their offices.

He gave a slow smile, feasting his eyes on the face that had consumed his thoughts all day. The wind picked up the strand of hair she’d only just smoothed down and he reached out to tuck it behind her delicate ear.

Her already coloured cheeks went a few shades darker, and her throat moved.

‘I have been thinking of you all day,’ he murmured for her ears only, delighting at the way her eyes pulsed at his words.

He’d dreamed about her again. She’d been the first thing on his mind when his eyes had opened that morning. By lunchtime he’d taken to checking his watch every few minutes, the time ticking down until their prearranged meeting outside her work offices slowing to a lethargic snail’s pace. He assured himself this restlessness, this yearning to see her again was due to his impatience to get the ball rolling in the fake relationship they were about to establish. He desired Carrie but more than anything his desire was to protect his business from the lies she had told her zealous colleagues about him.

In a clearer tone that anyone passing would hear he added, ‘I know it must sound crazy but I was hoping you would let me take you out for dinner.’

She swallowed, her eyes pulsing again before she blinked it away. ‘That sounds totally crazy but...that would be lovely.’

‘Excellent. Can I give you a lift home?’

‘If it’s not out of your way.’

‘I wouldn’t care if it was.’ He grinned then opened the back door for her and followed her in.

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