Accepting the Boss's Proposal by Natasha Oakley

Author:Natasha Oakley
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Mills & Boon
Published: 2006-01-30T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

MILES felt a vague sense of injustice. No doubt Alistair’s father hadn’t intended to inconvenience him by falling so ill, but the fact remained that his carefully laid plans to keep his distance from Jemima had come to nothing. And what really bothered him about it was that he was pleased.

He ended his call to Jemima with a feeling of smiling anticipation, and all because she’d agreed to accept his help with booking a few tedious things for an equally tedious wedding. He hated weddings. He hated the ridiculous top hat and cravat he almost always had to wear at them. He hated the long and usually poor quality speeches that made the whole business so interminably lengthy. His own excepted—obviously.

Miles played with the paper-clips in the Perspex box in front of him, letting them rise and fall. He didn’t even believe in marriage as an institution. Not really. Why did two intelligent people, who purported to love each other, need a piece of paper to hold them together?

It made no sense. His mother was right about that. It was an outdated dinosaur of an institution that belonged…Miles smiled to himself, pleased at the neat symmetry of his thoughts. It was an outdated institution that belonged in medieval times.

If he believed Alistair and Rachel had thought of that and were silently laughing he would feel a darn sight better at spending his time trying to book various people who spent their professional lives taking money off other people who thought they’d achieve nirvana if the flowers matched the lining of the best man’s jacket.

Miles stood up abruptly and walked through to the small kitchen area. His hands went through the practised procedure of making coffee while his mind tried to analyse why he felt so…

So…

He pulled a distracted hand through his hair. He wasn’t quite sure how he did feel. All he knew was that he was ridiculously pleased to be having lunch with Jemima. It felt like a result. It made no sense at all, but that was how it felt and the suspicion slid into his mind that all he’d been waiting for had been an excuse to break his decision to keep his distance from her.

And that didn’t make any sense at all. There was nothing about Jemima that should draw him to her. In fact, there was a great deal which should have prevented it.

So why? Miles returned to his desk and sipped his coffee. The truth was he didn’t know who Jemima was—and that was fascinating.

The realisation hit him with a sudden force that there were few people, if any, whom he couldn’t sum up within the first few minutes of meeting them. But Jemima had him guessing.

There was a…tension between the image she presented to the world and the Jemima he suspected lurked beneath the surface. It was as though she’d got used to hiding behind an image she felt safe with. One that ensured people didn’t notice her. Couldn’t hurt her? Every so often a different Jemima would peek out from behind the façade.

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