Millionaire's Revenge by Cathy Williams

Author:Cathy Williams
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2002-11-14T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIX

‘YOUR cousin.’ Laura tried to give a snort of disbelieving laughter, but she was rapidly reaching the conclusion, the mortifying conclusion, that he was telling the truth. ‘Ha,’ she finished weakly.

‘You didn’t think…no, surely not!’ Gabriel leaned closer to her. ‘I am shocked!’

He didn’t look shocked. In fact, he looked remarkably pleased with himself. Without too much effort, Laura could quite easily have hit him over the head with something very hard. Instead, she composed herself and stared at him haughtily. The man was playing games with her, which was bad enough. Worse, though, was the fact that, instead of her feeling insulted and outraged, the wicked glitter in those black eyes was shooting to the very heart of her, making her skin burn.

‘Men do have affairs with women who work with them. Or for them. It’s not unheard of.’

‘Ah, you do not give me sufficient credit.’ He sat back and continued staring at her as a waitress approached their table and took their orders of lasagne, which was the first thing that came to Laura’s head and Gabriel, without glancing at the menu, fell in line. All the better, she thought sourly, to get rid of the waitress so that he could continue his little pretence of nursing wounded feelings.

‘I have always made it a policy of mine never to get sexually involved with a member of staff,’ he said piously. ‘It can lead to all sorts of complications.’ He hoped she wouldn’t remember that when she was lying, spent and fulfilled, in his arms.

‘There’s no need to explain yourself to me,’ Laura mumbled ungraciously.

‘Anna and I have always been close. When she came to England to study and qualified as a chartered surveyor, I was delighted to be able to offer her a job with the company. In fact,’ he said confidentially, ‘I am godfather to her little boy.’

‘Lovely,’ Laura said.

There was a fractional silence, during which she was intensely aware of him looking at her whilst she gazed down in apparent fascination at the tips of her fingers resting on the table.

‘You weren’t…’ he allowed the pause to drag on until she reluctantly raised her eyes to his ‘…jealous, were you?’

‘Of course I wasn’t jealous!’ Laura scoffed. ‘Why on earth should I be?’

Gabriel spread his hands in a flamboyantly Latin American gesture of bafflement.

‘I don’t have any claims over you, Gabriel, any more than you have over me. Yes, we were involved a long time ago. And yes, we’re involved now, but in a completely different way. This time, it’s all about business. You’re now my paymaster.’

He didn’t like that. Not one little bit. She could see it in the immediate narrowing of his eyes.

‘I do not care for that term paymaster.’

Laura shrugged. ‘It’s the truth. You now are the lord and master of what used to be my home and you are perfectly entitled to bring anyone there you want to. You could bring an entire harem of women!’

She could feel him positively fulminating as they ate their lunch in virtual silence.

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