Father of Two by Judith Arnold

Author:Judith Arnold
Language: eng
Format: epub
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Publisher: Judith Arnold

Chapter Ten

“THIS IS VERY, VERY BIG GOOD OFFICE,” Leo commented as his gaze circled the conference room at Schenk, Murphy, Lopes and Associates. Like Murphy’s office, the room’s square footage was comparable to an aircraft carrier’s, and it featured a wall full of windows. The vertical blinds were slanted to obscure the view of downtown Arlington.

Gail had a good sense of direction. She was pretty sure that if she stood in the far corner and peered out at just the right angle, she would see the building that housed the editorial offices of the Arlington Gazette.

Murphy and the Gazette might have money on their side. They might have power. They might have enormous offices. But it took more than money, power and expensive downtown real estate to intimidate Gail.

She gestured toward one of the chairs at the broad glass-topped table. “Have a seat, Leo. The others will be in soon.”

“We get my one million American dollars, for sure,” Leo said, adjusting knot of his tie and hitching the knees of his trousers before he sat. He was wearing suit number one, and he was looking both eager and sheepish. “This office is very much of money. I can feel this in skeleton.”

“Bones,” Gail corrected him.

“Bones?”

“It’s an expression,” she said, taking the chair next to him and placing her briefcase on the table, not caring if it scratched the gleaming glass surface. “You feel something in your bones.” What she felt in her own bones was anger, impatience and a touch of dread. Anger that Murphy’s secretary had brought her and Leo into the conference room and abandoned them there, as if to let them steep in the rarefied atmosphere until it made them squirm. Impatience that Murphy was keeping them waiting. Dread that when she saw him, she would remember the shocking pleasure of his kisses.

Four days, and she hadn’t forgotten. Four days of reminding herself that she didn’t like sex, she didn’t like children, she didn’t like men who believed they had the upper hand. Four days of wondering how Dennis Murphy had managed to scramble her emotions so profoundly that she could no longer remember what her soul had sworn never to forget.

She was determined to endure this meeting, win as much money as she could for Leo, and then walk out and dismiss Murphy from her mind forever. She couldn’t afford to let him erode the base upon which she’d rebuilt her life. That base was granite-hard and firm; she could only hope it would withstand a siege by the sort of man who could make a woman weak merely by kissing her.

“Is very funny, this glass,” Leo said, staring at his feet through the table top. “Is like I look at my feet through windshield.”

Gail pulled a file from her briefcase. She didn’t wish to look at her feet through the glass table. She just wanted to get the meeting over with.

“In rage, person goes pounding of fist on table, it would shatter like when you take light bulb and hit it by hammer.

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