A Deal for Her Innocence by Cathy Williams

Author:Cathy Williams [Williams, Cathy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarlequinUKLtd
Published: 2018-01-31T23:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIX

SHE SURFACED TO find that the smiling English girls had gone and his hands had dropped back to his sides.

‘I wondered whether you’d find me,’ he told her, sitting down and gesturing to the chair opposite him, while one of the friendly staff bustled towards them to find out what they wanted. ‘Not a creature was stirring,’ he quipped, settling back and linking his fingers on his lap, ‘when I got up at seven. Not even, as they say, a mouse. Far less a human.’

‘You should have woken me,’ Ellie mumbled, still in a daze from that casual physical touch. ‘I never usually sleep late.’

‘Nine’s hardly late and you were probably jet-lagged.’

‘Still... I apologise. I’m not here to laze around.’

‘Let’s not start the day with apologies.’ He raised his eyebrows and grinned. ‘Love means never having to say you’re sorry. Remember?’

‘Very funny.’

But he was still grinning after they’d given their orders for coffee and a breakfast of fresh bread and fried fish, a local speciality.

‘I’ve had a few thoughts about the campaign,’ Ellie began, determined to get cracking on the business front. ‘The feel of the place is very different from what the photographs suggest. It’s far more peaceful and a lot bigger than I thought it was going to be. I mean, a person could really get lost here.’

‘That’s the idea,’ Niccolo drawled. ‘Attention to privacy. Gives people the safety of knowing that they can choose to use my resort as a place to meet someone or simply come for the joy of relaxing without being surrounded by families. My employees liked you, by the way.’

Ellie blushed and fiddled with her cutlery as their breakfasts were placed in front of them, along with a jug of fresh coffee and a selection of fruit. ‘Do all the staff know that I’m here in a professional capacity?’

‘I did think about telling them, but I thought it fairer to spare them the bother of having to try and fudge answers if anyone showed any curiosity about you, so as far as they and mostly everyone else here is concerned, we’re together.’

‘Isn’t that going to pose a problem...er...later?’

‘No idea what you mean.’

‘I’m only here for a week. What happens when we leave if they ask about me?’

Niccolo shrugged. ‘Why would they ask?’

‘Because they might be curious?’

‘Eleanor...’

‘Please call me Ellie.’

‘Ellie...’ He smiled gently. ‘They’re my employees, not the family priest in search of a confession. I’ve told them because I really didn’t have much of a choice, but my private life isn’t something they would question.’

Ellie nodded. Did she understand? Not really. She just assumed that he was so far up the pecking order that he could do whatever he wanted safe in the knowledge that, if anyone had an opinion about him, they would never dare share it, such was the extent of his power and his reach. He might be charm itself but only an idiot would take that at face value.

She changed the subject. ‘If you’ve got stuff to do

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