A Presents Christmas Bundle by Margaret Mayo

Author:Margaret Mayo
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2007-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIX

THE next few weeks were ones of change. Kay found herself seeing Mitchell every day; they ate lunch or dinner together, sometimes in one of the plush restaurants Mitchell frequented or at his home, they danced in nightclubs, visited the cinema and theatre, went bowling, ice-skating and even scoured one or two antique fairs and auctions. As he had promised they had fun—lots of fun. But it wasn’t really real, it wasn’t everyday life. Not her life, at least, Kay reflected.

She was standing in the kitchen on the Saturday morning before Christmas, up to her elbows in suds, idly watching the garden’s resident robin as he militantly sent off one or two marauding sparrows who had thought to plunder the bird table of pieces of bacon fat.

If she thought about it, they hadn’t had one no-holds-barred conversation since that first evening at his home. Oh, he had entertained her all right, and, yes, if she was totally honest, the more she saw him, the more she liked him, but…She frowned at the window. She didn’t know him at all. He was tough, formidably in control of himself and those around him, but she could never penetrate that invisible barrier even in the slightest. And the ironical thing, the really ridiculous thing was that he’d accused her the night before of the self-same thing.

‘What will it take before that barricade is smashed?’

She had glanced at him as he’d spoken, his voice soft and his eyes faintly amused as they’d driven home after a night at the theatre.

‘Sorry?’

‘You know what I mean, Kay.’

His tone had still been easy, even lazy, but perhaps—in hindsight—there had been something more, anger even, behind the indolent posture.

‘I don’t.’ She’d tightened instinctively.

He had said nothing for a mile or two, handling the car with his normal expertise, and then he had made some fatuous remark about the play they’d just seen, one that hadn’t necessitated an answer but that had made a reluctant smile come to her lips. And so the moment had passed.

His goodnight kiss had left her aching for more, as his kisses always did, but again—analysed in the cold light of morning without the normal unbearable sexual tension sending her into a spin—she felt he had been playing a part. So far but no further, mentally, emotionally and physically, that was how she felt it was. But then, was she really any different?

She shut her eyes tightly, biting on her lip as she washed a breakfast plate with unnecessary vigour. He unnerved her more now than when she had first met him, that was the truth of the matter. The more she was with him, the more she wanted to be with him, and that wasn’t how it was supposed to have been.

Maybe if they had gone to bed, if they’d become lovers in the full sense of the word, this crazy attraction would have burnt itself out? And then she curled her lip at the stupidity of the thought. It might well have on his side, in fact she didn’t doubt it for a minute, but she wasn’t built like that.

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