Eloping With Emmy by Liz Fielding

Author:Liz Fielding
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: romance, romantic comedy, contemporary romance, romcom
Publisher: Liz Fielding

Brodie had not been idly boasting about the extent of his wardrobe. When, rather less than ten minutes later he returned to the hotel lobby he was dressed in a pair of light-weight chinos and a polo shirt in an uncommon shade of petrol blue that did something curious to the shade of his eyes.

In a more self-conscious man Emmy would have suspected that it was deliberate. In Brodie’s case she had the depressing suspicion that it was the choice of some woman, some incredibly glamorous, sophisticated woman who never gave him a moment of trouble and whose kisses were responded to with rather more enthusiasm. Although, come to think of it, his response had been extremely enthusiastic. It was only on reflection that he had decided she had followed his instructions with rather too much vigour. The thought served to cheer her slightly.

‘You’re still here, then,’ he said, looking up from fastening his watch.

‘I didn’t have much choice.’ She wiggled her bare toes. ‘I left my shoes and bag in the car and your tame hotelier has them tucked away somewhere.’

‘And you let a little thing like that stop you?’ He regarded her with a certain wry amusement. ‘You really mustn’t let these minor set-backs dampen your determination, Emmy.’

‘I won’t,’ she promised, ‘but all the determination in the world won’t get me beyond the end of street without shoes.’

He retrieved her possessions from the girl behind the reception desk and handed them to her. ‘All you had to do was ask.’

She made no attempt to disguise her disbelief. ‘You really expect me to believe that?’

He shrugged. ‘It was worth a try. Now you’ll never know whether you’d have got away with it.’

‘There’s about as much chance of pigs flying,’ she retorted, irritably. ‘Besides, I’m hungry.’

He smiled at that. ‘If you want to eat I’m afraid you’ll have to return the money you took from my wallet.’

She opened her bag and gave it to him. ‘It was only a loan. You would have been quite welcome to reimburse yourself from the money you took from me,’ she informed him.

‘I’ll remember that, should the need arise.’ He made it sound extremely unlikely. He waited while she slipped into her sandals. ‘Ready?’ She nodded, rising to her feet. He frowned. ‘Sure? You still look a bit pale.’

Only because she spent so much time in his company blushing. ‘I’m absolutely fine. Don’t fuss.’

‘I’m not fussing. If you hit your head in that shunt, just tell me. I don’t want you passing out with concussion.’ He did care, she thought happily, before he spoilt the effect by adding, ‘I’d never be able to explain it to your father.’

For a moment she was tempted to consign her father, and Brodie with him, to the devil. But she couldn’t stay cross with him for more than two minutes together and instead she giggled. ‘It would almost be worth it to see you try,’ she said. Then she slipped her hand through his arm. ‘Come on, Brodie. Let’s have a look at this sunset you’ve been promising me.

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