Cinderella & the CEO by Maureen Child

Author:Maureen Child
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Chief Executive Officers, Christmas Tree Growing, Contemporary, Fiction, Romance, California, Housekeepers, General
ISBN: 9780373730568
Publisher: Silhouette
Published: 2010-09-02T04:00:00+00:00

Seven

“Mike!” Ivy sounded both shocked and horrified.

Tanner sent a quick look toward the speaker and spotted an older man, gray hair bristling, pale blue eyes narrowed, standing on the outside of the bounce house, glaring in at them.

“What the hell’s going on, Ivy?” the older man demanded again.

She hurried to her feet, tossed one anxious glance at Tanner and then scuttled wobbly across the floor. “I didn’t know you were here,” she said.

“Yeah, well I could say the same.” The old guy looked past Ivy to glare at Tanner. “I heard a ruckus. Thought I should check it out. So you want to tell me what’s happening?”

“Not really,” she said, half turning as Tanner walked up behind her. “Um, Mike Angel, this is Tanner King. Tanner, this is Mike.”

Well hell.

The owner of the tree farm, Tanner thought. No wonder Ivy was acting so weird. She’d just been caught by her boss and she was probably embarrassed. Plus, he thought, the old man looked mad enough to fire her and Tanner couldn’t let that happen.

See, his brain taunted, this is what happens when you relax your rules. When you forget to keep your distance from people. But even though he knew his brain was absolutely right, he couldn’t really regret what had just happened between them. In fact, he was looking forward very much to more rule-breaking as soon as he could get her to his house.

For the moment however, they had to get out of this situation.

“Good to meet you, sir,” he said and would have extended his hand, but for the mesh wall separating them.

“I’ll bet,” Mike Angel told him, then shifted his gaze back to Ivy. “You come on out of there now.”

“Right.” She gave Tanner a quick look that said she wasn’t going to argue with the man and hoped he wouldn’t either.

Tanner wasn’t going to argue, he assured himself. But he also wasn’t going to be treated like a ten-year-old caught throwing a baseball through a window, either.

Ivy dropped to her hands and knees and slipped out the doorway of the bounce house to sit on the grass so she could tug her boots back on. Tanner was right behind her.

“So you gonna tell me why you’re rolling around in the kid’s play palace?”

Ivy flushed and Tanner was struck by it. He couldn’t remember the last time he’d seen a woman blush with embarrassment. Hell, he hadn’t been sure they were capable of it anymore. But Ivy, he’d already discovered, was like no other woman he’d ever known.

“I was giving Tanner a tour of the farm and—”

“Just what kind of tour was this?” Mike asked.

Tanner wasn’t the kind of man to stand by and have a woman defend him—even when he needed defending, which he didn’t. They hadn’t done anything wrong. Although, Ivy’s boss might not be too happy with her. And that worried Tanner a bit. He wouldn’t want to see her lose her job over this.

He felt more himself once he had his shoes on and was standing on ground that didn’t ripple and shift beneath him.

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