An Indecent Proposal by Katee Robert

Author:Katee Robert
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 2016-08-30T04:00:00+00:00

Olivia managed to sneak two hours of sleep after her shift before Hadley woke up. Then it was time to throw together some food for both of them and figure out what they were doing with their day. She pulled her hair up into a ponytail. “What do you think, baby girl? Pancakes?” She usually saved them for a special occasion, but after last night, today was feeling pretty damn special. Things had been so unbelievably good with Cillian, and then she’d gone to work and had one of the best shifts since she started at Jameson’s. There were two bachelor parties getting started there, and they’d tipped her well—all while ribbing the grooms they were with. She smiled to remember the way the one groom-to-be had blushed. Whoever he was marrying was a lucky woman. That guy was a serious winner.

Hadley hustled into the kitchen. “Cakes?”

“Yep. We’re doing pancakes. Maybe I’ll even try my hand at Minnie Mouse.” She swept her daughter up and propped her on her hip. “Want to help Mommy?”

“Help!”

“I thought so.” She moved around the minuscule kitchen, grabbing the pancake mix, vegetable oil, eggs, and milk. A quick check to make sure they had syrup and strawberries, and she was ready to get started.

Which, of course, was when someone decided to knock on her door.

“Damn.”

“Damn!”

She froze. Do not react. Do not react. “Hadley, that’s a grown-up word.” Hopefully if she didn’t make a big deal about it, her daughter would let it go. Keeping her face blank, she set her down and headed for the door.

Hadley laughed. “Damn! Damn! Damn!”

Great. She was going to have to explain to Mrs. Richards why her daughter was acquiring the vocabulary of a sailor. The older woman would just adore that. Olivia grinned as she unlocked the door. Well, it would make a great story later on in life. And she had four years to cure Hadley of the habit before she started school—plenty of time, at least in theory. She opened the door, and stared, her mind frantically scrambling to come up with a logical reason for what she was seeing.

There wasn’t one.

Dmitri raised a perfectly shaped dark brow. “Are you going to invite me in, Olivia?”

It’s not a hallucination. He’s really here. “I’m seriously considering slamming the door in your face and calling the police.”

If anything, he looked more amused. “You won’t.”

No, she wouldn’t. They weren’t in New York anymore, so there was no reason to think he had half the Boston police force in his back pocket the way he did back home, but that didn’t mean they would side with her. She glanced up and down the hallway. “You’re alone?”

“For the moment.”

So his thugs were around, but he was giving her the illusion of privacy. Since that would only last as long as he indulged it, she stepped back and opened the door wider. Dmitri was more than capable of having one of his men kick down her door if she decided to be difficult, and she didn’t want to deal with the questions—or the financial fallout—that would bring.

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