Levelling the Score by Penny Jordan

Author:Penny Jordan [Jordan, Penny]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Contemporary, Fiction, Romance, General, Law, Legal Profession
ISBN: 9780745113289
Publisher: Harlequin Books
Published: 1986-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

Jenna was ready and waiting when Simon arrived on the afternoon of their departure. She had elected to wear casual clothes for their journey, for comfort.

Like her, Simon was dressed in jeans; his were faded to an indeterminate colour between blue and grey, and shrunk almost to the point of indecency, she decided sourly as she glanced hurriedly away from the muscular tautness of his thighs.

He lifted her cases into the boot of his car with surely far more ease than was natural for a man of his sedentary habits, and she cast him a fretful, baleful look behind his back.

She had been in a bad mood almost from the moment of waking up. What on earth was she doing? The last thing she wanted to do was to go on holiday with him, but she couldn't get out of it now.

'Come on, Red. In you get.'

'Stop calling me that!' she demanded bitterly. 'You know how much I hate it.'

She heard him chuckle.

'It never fails does it, Jen? You always rise to the bait.'

It was a warm, sunny afternoon, and the hood of his car was down, folded beneath the cream leather cover.

There was no doubt about it, his car was far more comfortable than her own small Mini.

Just as they were about to set off, Craig emerged from his flat.

'Have a good time, and don't do anything I wouldn't do,' he cautioned her teasingly, bending to kiss her cheek. Out of the corner of her eye Jenna saw Simon's expression. All the amusement and humour had left his face. He was frowning, almost glaring at Craig.

'Idiot,' she heard him mutter as he drove off, deliberately obliterating Craig's 'goodbye'.

'As a matter of fact he's an extremely intelligent and entertaining human being,' Jenna corrected him crisply. 'And he also happens to be a friend of mine.'

She saw the sideways look he gave her.

'A friend? Not so long ago you deliberately gave me the impression that you and he were lovers. Why, Jenna?'

She gulped, lost for an answer. The truth would be that she had reacted defensively, unable to bear the thought of him knowing the truth and teasing her for it.

'As I remember it, you were the one who suggested we were lovers… I just went along with it. After all, it isn't really any of your business whether we are or not, is it, Simon?'

He braked abruptly to avoid a cyclist with a death wish, and by the time Jenna had recovered her breath they were in such busy traffic that she deemed it wise to keep quiet.

Simon had allowed plenty of time for them to reach the restaurant where he had booked dinner. It was only a couple of miles outside Folkestone, where their ferry went from, but when they arrived they discovered that a group of people celebrating a twenty-first had virtually taken over the dining-room.

The manager was full of apologies and offered them a small table out of the way of the exuberant crowd, but it was

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