A Taste of Temptation by Cat Schield

Author:Cat Schield
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2014-06-22T16:00:00+00:00

Eight

With the first and shortest leg of her long journey behind her, Harper fastened her seat belt and stared out the window with dry, scratchy eyes. By flying business class, she’d saved eight thousand dollars on her ticket, but she’d found herself incapable of sleeping sitting up during the nearly ten-hour flight to London. Nor had she been able to nod off during her five-hour layover. Pair that with her sleepless night the previous evening and Harper estimated she’d been awake around forty-eight hours.

At least on the leg between London and Johannesburg she wasn’t stuck in a middle seat. She propped a pillow between her head and the wall of the cabin and let out a huge breath as a wave of exhaustion flowed over her. She fell asleep not long after the plane stopped climbing.

The popping of her ears woke her as the plane reduced altitude. She checked the seat back monitor that kept track of the distance traveled and saw that they were a little over an hour from touching down in South Africa. Her pulse jumped. She was about to land in a foreign country and go in search of a man she hadn’t known existed two days earlier. The town where he lived was a forty-five minute drive from Johannesburg and she had yet to receive a response to her email requesting information on the seven-day safari he was leading the day after she arrived.

She thought it might be a good idea to get to know him a little before announcing that she’d traveled halfway around the world to see if she was his daughter.

From his bio she knew that he’d never been married. Dedicating his life to his passion for Africa, he’d won several prestigious awards and had his work published in more than two dozen magazines. For the past day and a half she’d tried to find herself in this man she shared genes with. They shared a focus on their work and a determination to achieve greatness, but when it came to their careers, Greg LeDay had more in common with Ashton than her.

Both men were creative geniuses. LeDay’s photography was brilliant in the same way Ashton’s culinary masterpieces won him notoriety.

By comparison, what had she done? She’d worked hard and had nothing she was proud to display as her body of work. Her passion involved planning, organizing and making things happen. She was good at telling people what to do, being ruthless. How many of her employees called her a bitch behind her back?

Harper wasn’t feeling all that organized or ruthless at the moment. She was drifting on a sea of uncertainty. Impatient with herself, she pulled out her phone and logged on to the plane’s Wi-Fi network. It was time to reconnect with her organized self. She hadn’t yet planned her trip beyond booking her flight to Johannesburg. She needed to figure out how she was going to get to Pretoria and where she was going to stay once she got there.

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