Improper English by Katie MacAlister

Author:Katie MacAlister [MacAlister, Katie]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Contemporary, General, Romance, Fiction, Love stories, London (England), Historical, Americans - England, Americans, Women authors - England
ISBN: 9780505525178
Publisher: Love Spell
Published: 2003-02-15T05:00:00+00:00

“Do you have faith in me?”

That stopped me cold. “Well. . . that is, of course you ... it’s not that I?”

“Do you have faith in me?” Those pale blue eyes were almost frosty in their regard. I swallowed back my objections and nodded.

“Yes, I do.”

“Good.” She gave me a curt nod and ground out her cigarette. “You do your job and let me do mine. I wouldn’t be here working on a Sunday if my clients didn’t have faith in me. I’ll have the edited three chapters ready for you in two days. Make an appointment with Jacquie to come in then, and I’ll discuss them with you.”

“OK.” I gathered up my things and headed for her door, pausing as I worried over what she had said.

“Maureen, I know you know your job and all, but are you sure you can sell my entire book off of just three chapters?”

“You have to have faith,” she said, tossing my manuscript onto a towering stack of paper on the left side of her desk. It looked like those other papers were manuscripts as well, since they were all neatly rubber banded. If she had all of those to read and edit, how would she ever find time to get to mine, let alone give it the attention she said was needed?

“Faith,” I said, experiencing a decided lack of that particular sentiment. I let Jacquie set up another appointment for me, and wandered out of the dark, cool office into the street feeling a strange combination of hopelessness and bemusement.

“It’s her job to worry, let it go,” Bert said to me an hour later when I stood on the landing and recounted my experience. She and Ray were going out for the day, she told me, out boating on the Thames with some friends.

“I suppose you’re right,” I said with a rueful smile. “I just can’t help but worry a little, though. It is my whole entire life we’re talking about!”

Bert laughed as she adjusted a stylish straw hat and called over her shoulder for Ray to hurry. “You need to stop working so hard, Alix. What are your plans for the day?”

I blushed a little as I recalled asking Alex that very same thing earlier in the morning, when I lay sweaty and exhausted across his heaving chest. “I thought I would go see Westminster Abbey and maybe St.

Paul’s.”

“I’m sure you’ll enjoy them,” Bert said with a knowing smile. “Will you be going with anyone in particular?”

“Coyness does not become you, Bert.” She giggled. I snickered with her. “If you’re asking how things are going with Alex”?she nodded and patted my hand as Ray marched out of the flat with her arms full of a red plastic cooler and two bulging cloth carrying bags?“you can rest assured that all is well there. Alex and I have resolved our differences.”

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