Her Boss by Day...

Author:Joss Wood
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2015-01-17T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

LATER THAT MORNING Willa left Rob to work out in her gym and headed to Surry Hills for lunch with her girls. She now had ‘girls’, she thought as she spotted Kate’s bright red head at the back of the restaurant. Kate and Amy and...Jessica.

Jessica—who seemed to collect people like some women collected shoes. And that was okay, Willa thought. It wasn’t as if she had so many friends that she could refuse the offer of friendship from anyone.

Willa, dressed in a bright pink halterneck dress and peony-pink flip-flops, hair up in a tail, grinned at her friends as she slipped into the empty fourth chair.

‘Dear God,’ Amy murmured. ‘You’re so getting lucky.’

Willa grinned. ‘I so am...’ Turning to the waiter, she placed her order for a virgin mojito.

‘What’s the point?’ Amy cried.

‘The last time I drank with you I woke up to a stranger in my bed and a house full of guests,’ Willa explained.

‘The stranger is still there, bonking your brains out, and you told me that it was a fabby party,’ Kate replied crisply. ‘Add the booze,’ she told the waitress.

When Kate used that tone of voice nobody argued.

The waitress snapped her chewing gum and grinned. ‘Sure. Something to eat?’

‘Later, honey, thanks—just bring the drinks, please,’ Kate said, and waved her away. She leaned back in her chair and sent Willa a thoughtful look. ‘This isn’t just about sex...something else has happened.’

Kate, after spending so many hours with Willa hammering out her divorce, had become something of a big sister, and probably knew Willa better than any person alive. She’d held her hand, mopped up her tears and—metaphorically—slapped some sense into her. Kate had ripped the rose-coloured glasses off her eyes and had made her grow up, and for that Willa would be eternally grateful.

Willa’s eyes sparkled with delight and she wiggled in her seat like a puppy waiting for a milk bone. ‘I’ve got a job.’

Amy whooped her delight and Kate, far more controlled, squeezed her hand.

Leaning across the table, Jessica high-fived her. ‘That’s fantastic, Willa. I’m so happy for you...’

‘With who? When do you start?’ Kate demanded.

‘Rob’s accountant had to fly back home for a family emergency and Rob said that I can take over.’ Willa’s words bubbled like champagne. ‘And there’s so much to do... He’s just handed everything financial over to—’

Willa looked around the suddenly sombre faces and frowned. It was as if someone had just tossed an icy bucket of water over her friends and they were less than amused.

‘What’s the matter?’

Amy looked at Kate, who lifted her eyebrows in response. Neither of them said anything.

‘Okay, you guys are starting to scare me,’ Willa said, her hand on her heart. ‘Two seconds ago you were happy for me and now you’re exchanging what-the-hell-has-she-done? looks across the table.’

Amy took a sip of her wine and waited until their perky waitress had placed Willa’s mojito in front of her and left before speaking again. ‘When you said you had a job we thought you meant a real job.

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