Hostile engagement by Jessica Steele

Author:Jessica Steele [Steele, Jessica]
Language: nld
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: General, Mystery & Detective, Fiction
ISBN: 9780373023028
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2011-01-30T14:50:21.190000+00:00

with the fact that Jud's mother had a slight heart condition.

Wh—what sort of things haven't escaped her notice?' she asked, realising now it had perhaps been necessary for Jud to come to her room if he wanted a word-with her where there was no chance of them being overheard—though they would be going home shortly ...

`Things like the way you and I never touch each other for a start,' Jud said. 'Apparently it's the done thing for people in love to touch each other now and then—My mother noticed when you went to bed last night that although you kissed her cheek, I got nothing.'

`Oh !'

`Yes, Lucy—oh.'

`I never thought,' Lucy faltered, and knew even if she had, if Jud had proffered his cheek the way his mother had done last night, she would have pretended not to see it.

Jud ignored her comment and went on to tell her what he proposed they should do. `I've said that we had a lovers' tiff when we were out yesterday,' he told her, 'but that we've enjoyed making up and now everything is fine. We now have less than an hour in which to convince her that we're in love and sublimely happy in each other's Company.'

That good an actress Lucy knew she was not. 'You're not proposing I come downstairs and fling myself in your arms, I trust?' She took refuge in sarcasm as the very idea set up a fluttery sensation in her stomach. Flinging herself into Jud's arms wouldn't have convinced Mrs Hemming anyway, she would know by now that, like her son, she wasn't demonstrative in public.

`Others have done it without feeling any after-effects,' Jud said coolly, his eyes watching the expressions flitting across her face.

`Like you, Jud, I'm choosey,' Lucy said recklessly, while thinking if she wasn't careful she was going to end up pay-

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