Drive and Determination by Louise Kara

Author:Louise, Kara [Louise, Kara]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Heartworks/Lulu
Published: 2007-04-24T14:00:00+00:00

Chapter 17

“Hello, George. How are you?” Elyssa stared at the man in front of her, strangely aware that she had barely thought of him in the past few days.

“Just fine. And yourself?”

“Fine, thank you. Come in. How was Colombia?”

“Thanks.” George stepped in and shook his head. “Colombia was just as I suspected. There was nothing there that needed my attention as urgently as Will made it sound. The guy needs to get a life.”

Elyssa raised her eyebrows at his critical spirit -- especially aimed at his boss. She was surprised that she hadn’t paid attention to it before.

George walked into the living room and casually looked around. “So, you had a pretty good time at Lake Atitlan.”

It sounded more like a statement than a question and it appeared as though George wasn’t really expecting an answer. Elyssa replied anyway, “It was beautiful, just as you said.”

“Yeah, I bet.” George was holding some rolled up papers and he tapped them several times into the palm of his hand. He looked down at them briefly.

“What do you have there, George?”

“Oh, these?” A frown froze his features and he took in and let out a long, deep breath before he answered.

“Look, Elyssa,” he said, an expression of concern accentuating his features. “I hate to be the one to show you these. But I think you ought to know.”

“Know what? What are they?”

He slowly unfolded one of the papers, and as he handed it to Elyssa, she could see that it appeared to be a printed picture of a photograph from a web page. When she looked at it more closely, she recognized it as herself being carried by Will across the street in Panajachel during the downpour.

The picture was bad enough, but her eyes went down to the caption below it which read, Pemberleo Coffee’s wealthy and quite eligible president William Denton sweeping mystery woman off her feet in a downpour!

“No!” she exclaimed. “Where did this come from? Who took it?”

George shook his head, as if in disgust. “It came from some internet site where people post pictures of celebrities they see.”

“You have got to be kidding. Will’s not a celebrity!”

George looked very somber. “You and I both know that! But he’s got that ridiculous title of being one of the top 50 most eligible bachelors, so people with nothing better to do take notice.”

Elyssa’s voice shook as she asked, “Are those more pictures?”

George gripped them tightly. “Maybe you better sit down.”

“I don’t need to sit down, George! I want to see them!”

He handed her the next and she saw the two of them walking into the hotel in Panajachel. To her benefit, the picture had been taken from behind them, but with the other incriminating photo, there was no denying that it was them. The caption read, William Denton checks into one of the finer hotels with brunette bombshell.

Elyssa closed her eyes and looked away. “Why would anyone do this?”

“I am of the opinion they do it only for the money. Ridiculous if you ask me.

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