I Wanna Be Loved by You

Author:Heather Hiestand [Hiestand, Heather]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kensignton Publishing Corp.
Published: 2017-02-14T08:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

Les’s lungs seemed to still, leaving him frozen. He stared at Peter Eyre. “Surely you don’t think that. We were just married.”

The hotel manager moved out from behind his desk and perched on the edge in front of Les. “I expect a shouting match from a man like you. I just admitted there could be danger to your wife here in the hotel.”

“No you didn’t,” Les said. Keep the goal in mind, man. “You said as long as the British diplomats stay out of the hotel, the Russians are safe enough. I’m not scared. I’m standing here in your office.”

“True.”

“Of course I love Sadie,” he added.

The corner of Eyre’s mouth turned up. “Such a short courtship, you two. From what I’ve heard, a decent man would be obligated to marry the girl under your circumstances. I wouldn’t blame you for not loving her. We’re men of the world. She’s a beauty, of course, but marriage?” Eyre placed his cigarette in a battered brass ashtray.

“She saved my life,” Les said. “She’s good as gold, my Sadie. What point are you trying to make?”

“I’m trying to sort you out, Rake,” Eyre said evenly. “You’re married to my chambermaid. Her sister is engaged to my head of security. You might say you’re one of the family, but you’re a puzzle. I will figure you out eventually, though.”

Les forced himself to relax in his chair. He understood that Eyre, standing over him behind the desk, was attempting to intimidate him. Playing his role, he allowed it. “You need a salesman on staff?” he asked. “Hoping to entice me away from my present post?”

“Don’t count on it,” Eyre said. “I won’t hire just anyone. I turned Alecia down initially when she asked me for work.”

That was a genuine surprise. “Why?”

Eyre settled into his perch and knocked over the photograph of Emmeline. He didn’t seem to notice. “She didn’t suit, but Sadie does. Sadie is a charmer, and we need that around here. The guests like personality at a hotel like this. And Sadie is a creature of the modern age, more so than Alecia.”

“I haven’t met her yet.”

“Lovely girl, very lovely,” Eyre said. “You should have seen her, when she borrowed gowns from the actress she worked for. But she just disappears in her everyday clothing. Not Sadie. Sadie is too vivacious ever to disappear. She’ll keep you on your toes, old thing.”

“She has so far, undeniably. I should return home and check in on her.”

“I can just imagine her sore head,” Eyre said, chuckling. “We’ll see her tomorrow.”

“Thank you for letting her keep her position,” Les said, holding out his hand.

“I have spent years cleaning up behind Emmeline. Just one more day of it.”

Les left the office after shaking Eyre’s hand, thinking he’d played it a little too dull. Should he have made a scene about his wife’s employer letting her dance with strange men in a nightclub? If Sadie had followed him to Hull because he was irresistible, behaving too colorlessly around the Grand Russe could backfire on him.

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