A Tangled Web by A. Claire Everward

Author:A. Claire Everward [Everward, A. Claire]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9789659258444
Publisher: Author&Sister
Published: 2019-04-12T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

Four hours later Ian was standing on the convention center‘s mezzanine level, around him the young and hopeful who vied for an informal word, some advice perhaps, from the participating business leaders. His mind was on none of them.

The panel discussion had gone well enough. In fact, he didn’t regret attending it. These were talented, highly motivated minds who had come to hear him, the ones his company would be seeking not too long from now, and he had noted a couple of them he wanted to keep an eye on. And he had attracted their interest, too—once the panel was over he found himself surrounded by them, inundated with eager questions.

He had expected this. What he hadn’t expected was to be propositioned by the panel’s co-host. A good-looking woman, a mid-height blond, blue eyes, with a body it was somewhat difficult to disregard. But he couldn’t care less. He had bluntly disregarded the attention she had already given him earlier, but that didn’t stop her from pouncing on him the moment she saw him alone after the panel had ended. Literally pouncing on him. She had crowded him behind the stage in the main hall and had pressed herself against him suggestively. He had pushed her away, politely but firmly. He was married, he had said. But it’s not a true marriage, is it, she had answered, there have been rumors and they were true, weren’t they, you haven’t kissed you wife even once in public, you’ve barely touched her.

Robert, who had come to look for him, had seen what was happening and had intervened with an excuse that allowed Ian to escape. Ian had been through this before. And in the past, he would have reacted the exact same way to a woman who behaved that way. But that wasn’t the point. The point was that she was too goddamn right. There wasn’t anything behind his marriage, and there was nothing between him and his wife.

Even though he wanted there to be.

He’d been walking on eggshells for weeks. They’d been working together, spending more time together than ever before. And they were close now, he had never been this close to any woman, not like this. And yet she wasn’t letting him near her. She wasn’t allowing any kind of proximity, not even that which came inadvertently, as in the car earlier. She was deliberately keeping her distance from him and he was no closer to finding out why. He trusted her, and it seemed to him that she trusted him, too—but only to a point. Still, even now, only to a point.

Not a point. A bloody wall. She was resisting what was happening between them with the same stubbornness he had felt from her in the beginning, when they were still only strangers. Every time he thought there was something between them, every time he believed his feelings for her might be reciprocated, every single time he ventured out, giving something of himself, letting her know

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