Island Enchantment by Robyn Donald

Author:Robyn Donald [Donald, Robyn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, General, Contemporary, New Zealand fiction, Fiction
ISBN: 9780373116997
Publisher: Harlequin Books
Published: 1994-11-15T00:00:00+00:00

What if they asked why she wanted to see him?

She pushed the frown from between her brows with her first three fingers.

What had seemed so easy in the Bay of Islands suddenly was fraught with pitfalls. She could say it was about Far Winds. But if she did that she'd warn him, and he might refuse to meet her.

Briefly, she considered saying she wished to see him on a private matter.

Her head lifted and her mouth tightened as pride vetoed that; he might think she was chasing him.

So she would have to say it was business, and if the secretary or receptionist or whoever asked for more she would simply repeat her request firmly, and add that it was important.

In case she got tongue-tied she wrote down what she wanted to say. Thus armed, she dialled the number. Fear and a kind of uneasy anticipation were mixed with outrage and a bitter sense of betrayal to make a volatile, unmanageable cocktail of emotions inside her.

It was every bit as embarrassing as she thought it would be. The telephone operator sounded distinctly dubious, the receptionist even more so, but by dint of saying politely and implacably that she needed to see Mr Lorimer she managed to eventually get through to a cool-voiced woman.

This person, after presumably consulting with him, came back and said that Mr Lorimer would see her in half an hour's time.

Sticky with sweat and slightly shaky with reaction, Mike put down the receiver. Still in the jeans and T-shirt she'd travelled in, she wasted ten seconds by opening the wardrobe door and inspecting its contents. The only decent dress she had was crushed, and she didn't have time to press it.

Hastily she rang the desk, discovered that it took a taxi probably fifteen minutes to get her to the Bishop office, and asked them to order one immediately. She would have to go as she was. But first she had a quick wash down and scrambled into a fresh T-shirt before applying a coat of lipstick and combing her hair into some sort of order.

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