Harlequin Presents August 2017--Box Set 1 of 2 by Anne Mather

Author:Anne Mather
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781460319611
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2017-10-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

TWINKLING FAIRY LIGHTS hung round the perimeter of the Governor’s residence. Francesca looked at them, distaste rising through her as she thought of how half the island’s electricity was still down almost three weeks on from the hurricane.

Her disgust grew when they entered the residence and discovered hundreds of people dressed to the nines. Squeals of laughter and raucous laughs echoed throughout. In the centre of the first room they were taken through to, was an enormous champagne fountain.

They found the Governor outside by his swimming pool wearing a white tuxedo, surrounded by a group of giggling women in bikinis young enough to be his granddaughters. The tall woman who’d first led her to him a week ago stood a short distance behind them, keeping guard, wearing a different white outfit than she’d worn then.

The Governor saw them and excused himself from his eager sycophants.

He greeted them like long-lost friends but with a wary eye at Felipe and asked about their journey, in English, polite talk that made Francesca think that whoever Felipe had got to put the screws on this man had tightened them like a vice.

She had to bite her cheek to prevent laughter escaping. She didn’t doubt it would have a hysterical quality to it.

She had to keep her focus.

The Governor led them to his study, refusing even to let his all-in-white female shadow enter the room.

‘Before we get down to business, a drink?’

He produced a bottle of brandy from the cabinet behind his desk.

‘Why not?’ she said before Felipe could say anything.

She might despise the Governor but she saw little point in antagonising him. The hospital still needed to be built and she would prefer his goodwill while it was being done.

He poured three hefty measures and handed them round. ‘To new friends.’

Without meaning to, she caught Felipe’s eye, then quickly looked away and took too big a sip of the brandy.

It was easier to manage the entire situation if she kept him in the periphery of her vision rather than look at him directly.

She’d discovered that when she’d stepped out of the car at the airfield. She’d taken one look at him and had wanted to throw herself into his arms and beg him to never let her go.

She hadn’t allowed herself to think of him since she’d got back to her apartment soon after the sun had come up, his T-shirt chucked in a bag which she’d intended to give back to him. Then she’d set to work. She’d stripped the bedsheets and boil-washed them, cleaned and polished, vacuumed every inch of flooring, all the while refusing to allow the nausea and dizziness that kept racking her to derail her from her mission.

Then she had packed her evening dress and some clean clothes to change into for the return flight home and waited to be collected.

She hadn’t expected him to be the one to collect her but that hadn’t stopped her belly dropping with disappointment when she’d opened the door to find Seb there.

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