In the Boss's Castle by Jessica Gilmore

Author:Jessica Gilmore
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2016-08-15T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER NINE

THE MORNING AFTER the night before. It wasn’t usually a problem. After all, he always made his position completely clear before anything compromising began—no commitment, no emotional attachment, no expectations. Just two people hanging out, enjoying the moment. And if, in the end, the other person wanted more, well, his conscience was clear. He wasn’t the one changing his mind.

But there had been no laying out of the rules this time. No clarity. Just an overwhelming need overriding sense, overriding thought. He could have taken her there and then on the hillside, mud and hikers forgotten. At least he’d had enough sense to call a temporary halt.

But not enough sense to halt it altogether.

Kit gripped the steering wheel until his knuckles whitened. Need meant weakness. Need meant attachment. He didn’t do either. He only dated women he was in no danger of falling for. That was the rule.

Maddison Carter broke every rule.

But it wasn’t as if she were after anything more serious either. Maddison had her heart set on her perfect marriage to the perfect guy who would give her the perfect family. And he was far from perfect.

Surely she knew that this, whatever it was, was just an interlude. She wouldn’t want it to be anything more any more than he did.

Which in many ways made her the perfect woman.

Although following up a night of mind-blowing passion with a trip to the family home wasn’t the best idea in the world. Even the most clear-headed of women would be forgiven for finding the signals confusing.

Maybe not just the women.

Kit turned his attention to the road ahead. Most people headed north from Loch Lomond, past Fort William, up into the deeper Highlands, but to get to Kilcanon Kit took an early turn away from the loch, dropping back down on to the long peninsula that would take them down, past the sea lochs to the coast. The road twisted and turned, climbing up into thickly forested heights where eagles soared before dropping back down to the loch side. Glasgow, just an hour and a half away, felt as remote as London or New York; a bustling city had nothing in common with this wild and natural beauty.

And Kilcanon was possibly the wildest and most beautiful part of all. The Buchanans’ ancestral lands were at the very tip of the peninsula where land met sea. The road ahead was achingly familiar; here it was, the first glimpse of home. Every time it hit him anew, a sharp punch to his heart.

‘There it is, Castle Kilcanon.’ They were the first words either of them had spoken in the last hour and he slowed the car down so Maddison could look out at the sweep of water below, at the round grey castle dominating the landscape like a sentinel.

‘That’s your home?’ She sat up straighter and peered down at the dark, rotund keep. ‘Where’s the flags on the turrets and the knights galloping over the drawbridge?’

‘We don’t keep the knights on a full retainer.

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