Dark Encounter by Susanna Firth

Author:Susanna Firth
Language: eng
Format: epub

CHAPTER SIX

Kate returned to her office, her brain whirling at the thoughts that she had put resolutely from her until she had completed the task in hand. She supposed that the most sensible course would be to forget the whole episode as firmly as Nicholas Blake appeared to have done, to try to blot from her mind the image of herself in his arms, the feeling that for once he had seen her as an attractive and desirable woman rather than as a piece of office furniture, as indispensable, but as inanimate as the telephone which stood on his desk. No doubt she should let him assume that she was used to coping with a boss who made passes at her and that she was sophisticated enough not to take it to heart. He would only be amused if she adopted an attitude of injured pride and offered her resignation.

And yet how could she continue to work with a man whose physical presence aroused her to such an extent? It was all very well for him to flirt and go casually from one female to another as the fancy took him, entirely uninvolved and in no danger of getting his feelings even bruised, let alone as shattered as she had felt after the events of this afternoon. Was she really capable of presenting the cool, casual front that he no doubt expected of his women friends? And how was she to know whether he would decide to leave her alone in future or amuse himself further by repeating the experience anytime he chose? He had assured her that it would not happen again, but could she trust him to keep his promise?

At five o'clock she was no nearer to deciding what she should do. With a resentful look at the firmly closed door leading to her employer's office she put the cover on her typewriter and left for home. Mercifully Jane was out and she was able to have the flat to herself. Her flat-mate would have been only too willing to offer good-natured advice on the problem with which Kate found herself, but she was strangely reluctant to confide a tale which would reveal her to be as susceptible to the devastating physical charms of Nicholas Blake as Jane had clearly expected her to be.

While she cooked and ate a supper that she barely tasted Kate went over the whole episode again, blushing at the memory of her willing response. How could she have fallen so readily into his arms like a ripe plum for his picking? Oh, she had made a token struggle, a mere gesture of resistance, but he had known as well as she how slight had been her attempt to get away and how ready she had been to surrender herself to his lovemaking. How could she go on working with him? She shook herself mentally. Physical attraction was a mere matter of chemistry. Nicholas Blake was an attractive man and she had responded to him the way any woman might have done.

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