Harlequin Desire April 2017, Box Set 1 of 2 by Andrea Laurence

Author:Andrea Laurence
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781488015793
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2017-02-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TEN

What they had, Caroline concluded an hour later, was half a department store’s worth of clothes. Good clothes. The kind of designer names that made her bank account weep with frustration.

Armani. Gucci. Halston, even. Celine Rutherford had exceptional taste and apparently an unlimited budget.

How on earth was she supposed to let anyone else pay for all of this? Four gowns—gowns!—plus two summery sundresses, a pair of Bermuda shorts, a pair of twill trousers, four different tops to pair with the pants, matching accessories and shoes for every outfit. For God’s sake, there was even lingerie in here. Really nice lingerie. The kind a woman wore when she was intent upon seducing a man. Pale pink silk, delicate black lace—damn.

And of course there was makeup. Hell, the stuff in one of those bags wasn’t even the brands she sometimes splurged on at the department stores. Tom Ford? Guerlain?

She was looking at a complete wardrobe that had probably set Tom back close to ten thousand dollars. More, if the stones in the necklaces and earrings were real diamonds and emeralds and not reasonable facsimiles. She hoped like hell they were fakes.

Her chest began to tighten as she surveyed the luxury goods. This wasn’t right. This was like when she’d been a first-year prosecutor, drowning under the weight of her student loans, and had woken up one day to discover that, somehow, all of her debts had been mysteriously paid off.

It had been a mistake then not to undo that. It would be a mistake now to accept all of this finery.

What complicated things even more was that she was afraid she was falling for Tom. Some of him, anyway. She wasn’t in love with the domineering parts of him that gave orders first and made requests second. But a part of her even found that appealing. He was just such a strong man, confident and capable, willing to run toward danger. But underneath that was a streak of vulnerability that tugged at her heartstrings.

Wrap that all up in his intense eyes and hard body and—well, was it any wonder she was in Washington, DC, willing to compromise her morals again just to be with him?

She glanced back at the doorway that led to a small office. Tom had disappeared in there when she’d started unpacking the boxes—he obviously wasn’t the kind of guy who was heavily invested in women’s fashion. Every so often, she could hear him talking—was he working or was he checking in on Maggie?

It almost didn’t matter. Caroline strongly suspected that, when it came to his friends, his focus was just as intense as it was when he was working a case. He took his job seriously and she respected the hell out of him for it, even if she selfishly wanted him all to herself.

If this whole crazy weekend turned into something more...what would they even look like as a couple? She couldn’t ask him to stop working—it was clearly such a huge part of who he was, just like being a judge was fundamental to who she was.

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