Crazy About Her Impossible Boss by Ally Blake

Author:Ally Blake
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2019-10-09T14:50:32+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHT

WHEN LUCINDA TOOK a right, Angus took a left, heading back towards Reception. Then out of the front door and down the steps, with no idea of where he was going, only that he needed space. And air. And room to breathe.

He was halfway towards the lake when it started to rain. Big, fat drops that had him soaked in half a minute. Not that it helped cool him down. His internal engine was running at maximum speed, his thoughts spinning too fast to catch, bursts of adrenaline pumping through him.

For he knew. Big time. He knew that he’d just screwed up the way he knew when a campaign hit that sweet spot where colour, tagline and key image all came into perfect sync.

But he didn’t feel himself, his emotions slipping about inside him, unable to find purchase, his head too foggy to figure out why.

He’d only been trying to help. To tell Lucinda she deserved better. The best. She and Sonny. Because her kid was great and she was an amazing mother—loving, honest and fierce. She was also a brilliant administrator. And a loyal friend.

Fitz had been dead right. If anyone deserved love, Valentine hearts and eternal happiness, it was Luc.

She’d looked so sad when talking about the band of idiots she’d allowed into her life, he’d have done anything to help her lose the doe eyes. They made him ache. And growl.

And want to kiss everything better.

To place one hand against the wall right by her neck, trapping her in place. To run the other down the length of the delicate green strap barely holding her dress in place. The same dress she’d worn to the damn Christmas party a year and a half ago, when she’d appeared on the other side of the crowd looking like temptation in heels.

He pictured her face tilting up to his, those warm brown eyes melting as he showed her just how heart-stopping he thought she was...

Angus’s feet squelched to a stop as he balled his hands into fists.

He had to stop. Stop thinking about her that way.

But he couldn’t, not since he’d seen her standing in the restaurant wearing that dress. In an instant, tension had coiled around him like a spring. When she’d slid to the floor behind their tree, and wrapped her legs over his, his entire body had felt trapped in a vice. As though he’d implode if he couldn’t touch her, feel her, be with her.

The rain really began to bucket down, the noise thunderous. He tugged his suit jacket over his head, preparing to head for a nearby copse of conifer trees, before he gave up, held his arms out and let it lash him. Cleanse him. Beat down against his skin until the strange, frenetic heat pulsing through him abated.

Finally, after a few minutes, he felt as if he could hear himself again.

When the rain made no sign of slowing, he turned and headed back towards the hotel at a walk, tipping an imaginary hat towards the doorman, who batted not an eyelid at his bedraggled form.

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