Agenda: Attraction! by Jessica Steele

Author:Jessica Steele
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2011-05-30T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIX

EDNEY did not sleep well. How could she? She had been on the verge of the most tremendous happening in her adult life, and he—he had told her, ‘Go to bed’!

She did not need an alarm call on Sunday morning but was up, showered and dressed long before their nine o’clock departure time. Bearing in mind Saville’s changeable nature, Edney had no idea what sort of a mood he would be in when she saw him. But a girl had her pride. Bubbles to it. Was she such a chameleon that she had to suit her mood to his? To blazes with that! Whatever she was feeling inside he was never going to know about it.

With her weekend bag in one hand, her shoulder bag secure, she left her room at two minutes to nine, determined to be pleasant but aloof. She held her head up high, though she was very mindful of where she was walking—it would be great if he opened his door just as she got there and she pitched headlong in, wouldn’t it?

She rapped smartly, efficiently, at his door. Saville opened it. Her heart thundered. Her mouth smiled, her eyes fastened on a point near his right ear. ‘May I come in and get the laptop?’ she requested with cool pleasantness.

‘I’ve got it here,’ he replied evenly, and, turning, gathered it up with his luggage from down by the door.

To her mind he was clearly stating that last night’s lovemaking had been one huge, regrettable mistake and that he didn’t want her anywhere near the inside of his suite again.

He should be so fortunate! She might be jelly-like inside, but she’d hammer the daylights out of him if he tried any of that ‘No—I’m not going to kiss you’ malarkey again. Though, as she favoured him with her best aloof look, the one he favoured her with, just before she turned about prior to heading for the lifts, was more killing than kissing.

She was glad when their plane landed in London. Conversation on the flight out had been sparse—on the return flight it was non-existent. Indeed, so non-existent that when the tune came for them to go their separate ways she was determined that he could go and take a running jump before she’d open her mouth to bid him goodbye.

All she wanted to do then was to get to her car and get away from there. She flicked him a cool glance—and found that he did have something to say to her after all.

Though she could well have done without his lofty ‘Thank you for your services,’ as he gazed idly down at her.

Well, that put her in her place! Arrogant swine! Edney almost told him there and then to stuff his job. But that something, that indefinable, wish-she-knew-what-it-was something, held her back.

‘It was nothing,’ she answered sweetly—pick the bones out of that—and didn’t miss the chips of ice forming in his eyes. Then, as he turned abruptly in one direction, she turned in the other.

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