Guardian to the Heiress by Margaret Way

Author:Margaret Way
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9780373178636
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2013-03-05T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FIVE

THE ART SHOWING was well under way before Damon arrived. He had promised to make an appearance as a favour to a good client. The gifted artist was her son. The showing was entitled SCAPES, Land, Sea and Air. From what he could glimpse through the crush, the paintings were very good. At least, the ones he could see.

He was making his way to his client’s side—she had already spotted him and was waving him over—when he came face to face with Amber Coleman.

“Ah, the exact person I wanted to see!” Amber’s beautifully styled dark head was held unnaturally high. Very much in the confrontational position, he thought in dismay. It was accompanied by a twisted little smile. Evidently he was supposed to feel some sort of guilt. About what? He had never made any promises to Amber. Indeed their relationship, such as it was, was open. He saw other young women. She saw other men.

Tonight she was with James Brooks, a mutual friend. James was her standby. “Flyin’ high these days, Damon,” she said like an accusation. “Don’t see much of you at all.” Here was a woman throwing down the gauntlet.

He didn’t know whether to laugh or get annoyed. Instead, he glanced away, holding up a hand to James, who was fast beating a diplomatic retreat. “Amber, you know I have a pretty heavy workload. I’m only here tonight because Sandra Milton is a good client of mine.”

“I know that,” she retorted, a sharp expression on her face. “A little bird tells me you’re actually having Christmas with the Chancellors.” She said it with such irony Damon gave a mild groan.

“Not another little bird? Would this one happen to be Troy Chancellor?”

Amber couldn’t frown. She’d just had another Botox injection. “What do you mean, another little bird?”

“Little birds are chirruping to you all the time, aren’t they, Amber? You’re a veritable magnet for information,” he reminded her.

“Oh, that!” Amber felt quick relief. It had been a constant worry that the little heiress had gone complaining to him. “People tell me things they tell no one else.”

“I bet only once,” Damon stressed.

Amber ignored that. “Troy tells me he’s concerned you’re getting way too close to his cousin.” She watched his expression harden. Damon Hunter was a marvellously handsome man, so charismatic people just stared at him. Every day he gained more and more recognition. Being Carol Chancellor’s lawyer had quite a bit to do with it, Amber thought. She had been relentless in her pursuit of Damon, but upsettingly unsuccessful. Any woman he took an interest in automatically became her enemy.

“Troy Chancellor would do well to watch his tongue,” Damon was saying. “The rich can be very litigious.”

Amber held up a hand, her long fingernails painted the same silver as her short sexy dress. “What are you saying?”

“Nothing beyond that, Amber. You, I’m forced to point out, have the knack of making trouble. Remember the Todds? You can be very indiscreet.” Amber and her gossip had helped wreck the marriage.

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