Boss's Christmas Proposal by Allison Leigh

Author:Allison Leigh
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin Enterprises
Published: 2008-09-20T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

Getting through the weekend without running into Greg was not as difficult as Kimi expected it to be. Not when she remained entirely in her room, venturing out only to meet with Chef Lorenzo and Anton Tessier to discuss another menu change for the Nguyen’s wedding reception and to sneak in a kitchen raid when she could no longer ignore her hunger pangs.

The rest of the time she had spent figuring out what to do with her overabundance of clothing and luggage since the closet space in her new accommodations was considerably less accommodating than the suite had been, and gathering research for the last paper she needed to write before the semester ended that week.

When she finally left behind the room for work on Monday morning, she knew that Greg had already left his room much earlier. She was painfully attuned to any noises from his room, but the only thing she had been able to hear was the muffled sound of his door opening and closing.

The service elevators were even busier than usual, so Kimi took the stairs, stopping off at the lobby level to return the key card for the Mahogany Suite; something she had forgotten to do amid the task of moving out of it before the weekend.

It was plainly evident just from the heightened energy and activity in the hotel that they were rapidly gearing toward receiving their first guests the following day.

If she had not personally witnessed the effort that had gone into the transformation of the lobby from its unfinished state when she had first arrived to its current completed luxury, she would have thought that magic had been at play.

Gone were the pallets of marble and wood. Metal scaffolding no longer crisscrossed the high, faintly golden-toned walls. The fountain, presently flanked by magnificent holiday poinsettias fashioned into tall Christmas “trees”, was a soothing focal point for all who would enter the lobby, and particularly for those who chose to relax in the deceptive comfort of the low couches and chairs arranged between it and the soaring windows that overlooked the most traditional of the various gardens the hotel boasted.

There were pristinely attired men and women behind the reception desk that was elegantly decked with boughs of berry-sprigged garland, and even the uniformed doormen were in place.

It struck Kimi as oddly surreal.

A busy, beautifully constructed, elegant and sophisticatedly appointed building, just holding its breath as it awaited the guests that would truly bring it to life as a world-class hotel.

She spotted Greg talking with an auburn-haired woman behind reception and made herself continue to the desk in a natural fashion, aiming for the clerk—ponytailed Sue—who stood farthest from Greg.

“You’re leaving?” Sue asked when Kimi handed over the card to her. She looked just as disconcerted by Kimi’s presence as she had when she had learned who Kimi was at that first staff meeting.

“No.” Evidently the details of her move out of the suite had not yet traveled entirely along the hotel grapevine. Kimi hoped that meant her presence at the Taka was no longer such a novelty.

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