Maid of Dishonor by Heidi Rice

Author:Heidi Rice
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2013-07-31T16:00:00+00:00

EIGHT

Cassiopeia Barclay, I want to throttle you.

Gina took her eyes off the phone, punched her computer’s start-up button and lobbed Carter Price’s card into the waste-paper basket—for the fiftieth time in the last seven days.

The big digital clock above her kitchen counter clicked from 10:59 to 11:00 as she struggled to focus on the screen and ignore the residual hum of heat pulsing in her abdomen.

Ignore it. He’s probably already on his plane to Savannah. You did it.

Why she didn’t feel particularly thrilled with her powers of resistance was neither here nor there.

She dragged her gaze back to the blog she was designing for an organic farmer’s community up in Westchester. It was a new commission and she’d been toying with different basic designs for two days. She punched keys, finally picking a beautiful leaf green for the background to complement the community’s logo.

At last, progress.

Business had been painfully slow recently—people generally didn’t think too much about social-media marketing campaigns when they were struggling to pay their bills—and she needed to make an impact with this commission. She’d promised the co-operative at least fifty thousand unique visitors in their first three months, which meant putting together a blog package with the wow factor.... And achieving that when the majority of your subject matter was organically grown potatoes was no mean feat.

Once she’d finished the preliminary designs, she began to rough in some of the copy they’d sent her for the launch. And pretended not to notice the insistent punch of her heartbeat every time she glanced at the clock—and another minute had crawled by.

* * *

Carter leapt up the steps to the loft apartment two at a time. He had exactly an hour till check-in closed on his flight to Savannah. With a major board meeting scheduled for five this afternoon in Georgia he couldn’t miss his plane. So what the hell was he doing getting his cab driver to detour to Brooklyn?

He guessed he was about to find out as he reached the second floor landing and pressed the door buzzer marked Carrington Web Designs.

If she was out, that would be all the answer he needed. He’d left it up to her to call and she hadn’t—but he figured she owed him an explanation. She’d approached him, she’d made the first contact, and then she’d blown his mind in that damn hotel suite, leaving him tense and edgy and unfocused for the rest of his trip when he should have been concentrating on business.

He’d drifted off during more than one important negotiation in the last week—eventually making the trip a wash with the Chinese clients he’d been pursuing for months, who now thought he was the next best thing to a narcoleptic.

He could have happily lived the rest of his life never having stirred up this hornet’s nest again. But she’d insisted on stirring it up, and then figured she could just unstir it again at her own convenience. Well, to hell with that.

He thumped on the security door, drew back his fist to thump again, when the door swung open.

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