In Bed with a Stranger by India Grey

Author:India Grey
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9781408926352
Publisher: HarlequinUKLtd
Published: 2011-11-02T23:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER NINE

THE flight back to England was every bit as luxurious as the one they had taken two days previously, but considerably less enjoyable.

Neither of them spoke much. Kit seemed to have placed himself behind a wall of glass, so that even though he was only a few feet away from her, Sophie felt as if he were somewhere far beyond her reach. Sitting in the deep embrace of the huge seat, she stared out of the window, longing to cross the small distance between them and tear the paperwork out of his hand and force him to notice her, to talk to her …

To tell her exactly what had been going through his mind when she’d seen him in the souk earlier, and what had made him look like a man who was being crucified by his own conscience?

But she had a sickening fear that if she did there would be no going back, because the things he told her would change everything. How could she wilfully bring about her own expulsion from the paradise she had allowed herself to believe was hers for ever?

It was early evening when they reached Alnburgh. Even in the height of an English summer, the contrast with the heat and the rich colours of Morocco couldn’t have been starker. Carved from iron-grey stone, it appeared to rise straight up out of the cliffs above a stretch of windswept beach, and for

miles it had loomed on the horizon, managing to look far more menacing than the Disneyesque castle in the Romanian pine forest where the vampire movie had been filmed.

Sophie’s spirits sank even further.

She remembered the first time she’d seen it. It had been a winter night, in the middle of a blizzard, and with its floodlights switched on Alnburgh Castle had looked just like a child’s snowglobe. She’d been enchanted, but that was before she’d realised it was just as cold inside as it was outside.

‘I can see why Tatiana couldn’t wait to move to London the moment Ralph’s funeral was over,’ she said with a shiver. ‘It’s not exactly cosy, is it? Are any of the staff still there?’

‘Not as far as I know,’ said Kit. His voice was gravelly with misuse, and more sexy than ever. ‘Obviously Tatiana didn’t want to pay them to stay on if she wasn’t living there—not when she’s haemorrhaging cash to live in a suite at Claridges while she has the London house vandalised by her interior decorator.’

Sophie pressed the button to activate the car heater, and directed the jet of warm air onto her icy feet. She was still wearing the little gold flip-flops, which were covered in pink Marrakech dust. They were already driving under the clock tower, but she knew from previous experience that this might be the last opportunity she had to be warm for a long time.

‘It’s a big responsibility, isn’t it?’ she said faintly, wondering if now was the time to ask how quickly he could sort things out so they could get back to London.

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