Diamond Girl by Diana Palmer

Author:Diana Palmer
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2014-06-28T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

Sunday promised to be an ordeal. Kenna came home from church in no particular hurry, with nothing more to look forward to than more of her own company. She wandered down the street, staring up at the tall skyscrapers, her eyes drifting to the occasional oasis of trees that graced downtown Atlanta. It was odd how the downtown area had a suburban feeling to it. She constantly ran into people she knew, like the secretaries in the offices below hers and the owner of the small grocery store on the ground floor of her apartment building and the manager of the small boutique which was also among the businesses located there. It wasn’t as lonely an existence as she’d once thought it might be when she moved to Atlanta from the small town where she’d grown up.

She dragged her feet, drinking in the sweet spring air, watching buds just beginning to pop out on the tall oak and maple trees, and the smaller dogwoods. The dogwoods would be in full blossom before too long, just in time for the city festival that bore their name.

With a final wistful sigh at the sight of a couple holding hands and sitting on a stretch of concrete bench along the street, she went into her apartment building. At least she felt good today, in her new lavender-and-white-patterned dress, with its full skirt and neatly ruffled little neckline and puffy sleeves. She felt young and womanly all at once, gorgeous, a model. She made a leap into the elevator, whirling to push the button for her floor. She leaned dreamily back against the rail. Glasses or no glasses, old girl, you have got something, she told herself. She grinned. Confidence, perhaps. Maybe that accounted for this buoyant feeling. When she got to her apartment, she’d clean out her closet and get rid of those dowdy old clothes she’d been wearing for the past two years. That ought to keep her occupied.

The elevator stopped and she danced off it, her skirts flying against her long, lovely legs as she turned toward her apartment. She stopped so suddenly that she almost fell forward, and her heart jumped into her throat.

Regan was leaning back against the wall, brooding again, his eyes staring straight ahead at her door. One hand was in the pocket of his gray slacks, the other was holding a smoking cigarette. He was wearing a blue blazer with an open-necked white shirt, and his hair was rumpled...and it suddenly occurred to Kenna that she was falling in love with him. The discovery froze her where she stood. That notion had to go, and quickly, she told her heart. No mutinies around here, not when she was about to catch Denny’s eye and live happily ever after. Cinderella didn’t fall in love with the fairy godfather, it wasn’t allowed.

As if he sensed her uneasy scrutiny, Regan’s head turned and he stared at her. He was a good three doors away from where she was standing, but he might have been beside her.

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