Claiming His Cinderella Secretary by Cathy Williams

Author:Cathy Williams
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2021-05-11T15:16:15+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

JAMES GAZED OUT from the balcony of his suite at a view that was incomparable.

Sprawled on the hand-made bamboo chair, long legs stretched out on the matching footstool and hands folded behind his head, he let his eyes feast on a tapestry of navy blue sea and a sky that was ablaze with all the vibrant colours of sunset. Russet and burnt orange against a backdrop of deepest indigo and midnight-blue. No painter could have captured the natural beauty.

However, as he nursed a rum, the only persistent image in his head was that of his recently departed personal assistant.

For the first time since they had touched down on the island, his bed was empty. In a fitful sleep, he had rolled onto his side at a little after three in the morning, automatically reaching out for her warmth, but had jerked awake, uncomfortable at the thought that he didn’t care for the sudden emptiness of his sleeping arrangements.

Since when had he had a problem sleeping on his own? Indeed, that was something he had always actively encouraged. It was rare for any woman to occupy his bed overnight, and certainly never for nights on end, as though some kind of habit was being nurtured.

He had been interested to see how breakfast together would go, following what he still considered to be an overly dramatic and premature ending to what they had going on. He’d imagined that he might have to deal with her embarrassment.

Understandable.

She lacked his considerable experience in these matters. In fact, when he thought about her, which he had done for most of the night, it was to conclude that she was strangely innocent and touchingly disingenuous, despite the outward image of a cool, controlled and utterly unflappable professional.

It tickled him pink to think that he was the one-in-a-million guy who had seen right into that very private part of her.

So he had been surprised and a little disgruntled, several hours earlier, when he had sat down to breakfast with a woman who was once again metaphorically dressed in her London work uniform.

Every time he had tried to steer the conversation in a more personal direction, she had blanked over and looked at him with polite, ever so amused grey eyes and then promptly returned the conversation right back to work. Deals that were brewing on the side lines... An email from a company he had casually approached six months previously that was now interested in doing business with him... The sudden absence of one of the CEOs whose mother had been rushed to hospital following a car accident...

She had been thoroughly and admirably in control, and naturally he had been immensely grateful to be spared the awkwardness of having to get things back on track in preparation for a resumption of their normal working relationship.

He had reminded himself of the continuing nightmare of the ex who couldn’t go away. Another lingering ex was the last thing he needed.

Still... Was there any reason for her politely but

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