Knight to the Rescue by Miranda Lee

Author:Miranda Lee [Lee, Miranda]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9780263776430
Amazon: 0373117027
Goodreads: 2131294
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 1992-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIX

‘AMAZING!’ Elliot exclaimed. ‘Simply amazing.’

‘Yes, it is, isn’t it?’ Audrey said quite smugly.

Only six days had passed since that memorable Saturday, and already she could drive confidently in traffic. And now, this morning, she’d successfully done a reverse park without putting a single wheel wrong.

It certainly had come as a surprise that, with all her past nerves and fears, she had proven to be such an excellent driver. Though Audrey suspected Elliot had something to do with it.

After he’d made his warning edict about teaching her morning, noon and night, he’d immediately done an about-face and taken her back to his place for coffee, saying that her first driving lesson could wait till he’d found out the exact nature of the accident she’d been involved in.

Audrey had been tight with tension at finding herself alone with him so soon after his explosive reaction to her proposal, but Elliot didn’t touch her in any way. On the contrary he handled her with a professional and rather impersonal kindness—as she imagined a psychiatrist might act—and soon, Audrey found herself relaxing and telling him what had led up to the accident that had killed her mother, how her father had been driving at the time—a powerful sports car—how he’d had an argument with her mother about money and had been taking his temper out on her by driving far too fast. It had been raining and they had skidded on a corner, slewing at breakneck speed into a telegraph pole. Her mother had been killed instantly. She herself had been very badly hurt. Her father had escaped with a bruise on one elbow.

Elliot, while sympathetic about the accident and her fears relating to driving, finally commented that she might be less nervous behind the wheel than beside it. He calmed her with the thought that driving herself was another way of having control over her own life and that confidence in driving was relative to being skilled at it. Which meant being taught well in the first place.

And he proved to be a very effective teacher, taking each progressive step very slowly, using profuse praise and encouragement every time she did something right, and defusing her instant fluster with a teasing remark if she didn’t. Nevertheless, when, a few days later, Audrey found her hands and feet and eyes co-ordinating with an incredible smoothness, they’d both been astonished.

Of course, her lessons had been frequent and intense. They’d spent most of Sunday on it, then Elliot had picked her up every day since for an hour before work and every afternoon for another hour afterwards. This morning—Friday—had been her hardest test yet, for it had been raining slightly, bringing back memories of her accident. She’d come through, however, with flying colours.

‘You’ll be ready for your test soon,’ he said, and darted her a meaningful look.

Her heart missed a beat.

He hadn’t touched her all week, yet every minute they spent together carried an intensifying sexual awareness. On both sides.

Sometimes, when she was on the

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