His Darling Valentine by Carole Mortimer

Author:Carole Mortimer
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2019-04-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

THEIR departure from the restaurant half an hour later certainly wasn’t made any easier by Pierre’s parting comment. ‘Remember what I said about the live music licence, Ross!’ Or the fact that he deftly pulled a single red rose from the vase on the reception desk and handed it to Tazzy as she preceded Ross out the door.

‘For goodness’ sake, don’t take it all so seriously, Ross,’ Tazzy finally sighed impatiently. The two of them had driven the two miles back to the house in complete silence, Ross scowling darkly at her side as he parked the car in the driveway.

He turned to give her a rueful glance. ‘Lunch didn’t turn out quite the way I expected it to.’

She shrugged, inwardly wondering exactly how he had expected it to turn out… ‘So let’s move on, hmm?’

He gave an appreciative chuckle. ‘As easily as that?’

She gave another shrug. ‘What’s the point of dwelling on something you obviously didn’t enjoy?’

‘I wasn’t the one who was supposed to enjoy it,’ Ross protested. ‘I wanted to take you out for a Valentine lunch. The love-o-gram, or whatever the man called it—’ he grimaced disgustedly ‘—was a bit of a shock, let’s say. And I had forgotten what an affected pain in the butt Peter can be!’

‘Don’t be mean!’ She laughed.

He glanced disparagingly at the red rose she still held in her hand.

‘Another one to add to your collection.’

Tazzy looked down at the single red rose, newly in bud, its deep red colour symbolic of the day. She had never received one red rose in her life before today, let alone dozens of them.

‘You have this one.’ She held it out to him.

And just as quickly wished she hadn’t! What on earth was she doing? A single red rose, when given to the right person, was just as significant as the dozens of them she had received this morning. More so, in this case!

Ross looked at the red rose she held out to him, and then up into her face.

A face rapidly suffusing with embarrassment. What had possessed her? What was Ross going to think—?

‘Thank you.’ He reached out to take the rose gently from her grasp before leaning forward and kissing her lightly on the lips.

Tazzy’s lips tingled from his touch, her own gaze completely mesmerized by the gold flecks in the brown of his eyes. Had Ross really just kissed her…?

‘I think we can do better than that, don’t you?’ he murmured huskily, bending his head to claim her lips once more, his arms moving about her as he moulded her softness against him.

She had to be dreaming! Ross couldn’t really be kissing her!

But he was. And not just kissing her. But touching her too, his hands moving caressingly across her back.

If she had been standing her knees would have buckled. As it was she just melted against him, melted into him, her arms moving up about his neck as her hands became enmeshed in the darkness of his hair, the red rose crushed between them, forgotten.

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