Millionaires Woman by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780263880953
Google: 7-eJQAAACAAJ
Publisher: Mills & Boon
Published: 2009-12-01T07:04:35+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

KATE had fully intended taking Saturday off to get in the mood for Jack’s dinner party. Instead she went on with her painting with the radio turned up high, trying to drag her mind away from the few brief, heated moments that had given her such a frustrated, restless night. She was the guilty one—or the stupid one. It was herself she’d been fighting, not Jack. For one desperate moment she’d wanted to pull him down on the bed and make love with him until the world went away.

Her face set in determined lines as she put her painting paraphernalia away later. The solution was simple. If she was never alone with Jack again it couldn’t happen. But that would mean no more impromptu suppers. Her shoulders sagged. It had been so good to spend time with him again and just talk. Quite apart from the unique physical chemistry between them, Jack had once been the best friend she’d ever had. She’d been madly in love with him, but she’d also liked him better than any man she’d met before or since. The loss of friend as well as lover had made the pain and disillusion even harder to bear when it all ended in tears.

The doorbell rang just as Kate was about to go upstairs for a bath. She opened the door to find a young woman proffering a flower arrangement.

‘Kate Durant?’ she asked. ‘These are for you.’

‘Thank you,’ said Kate, surprised, and hurried inside to read the card attached to the basket.

‘For Katie,’ said the message.

Kate blinked hard as she looked at the delicate blend of freesias and miniature tulips. She set the basket of flowers on the table in the sitting room and stood back to admire, her new resolution wavering already. The subtle colours blended so perfectly with the room—Jack had obviously chosen them personally. Afraid to trust her voice she thanked him via a text message.

‘We were going to offer to come and pick you up tonight,’ Anna rang later to inform her.‘ But it occurred to me that you’d rather drive yourself. You might—’ cough ‘—want to stay on for a bit after we’ve gone home.’

‘I very much doubt that, but there’s no point in coming miles out of your way to collect me,’ said Kate tartly. ‘I’ll drive myself.’

‘You sound a bit snappy!’

‘Sorry, sorry. I’ve just finished the last wall in the dining room and I’m a bit tired.’

‘For heaven’s sake, Kate,’ said Anna in exasperation, ‘surely you could have taken the day off today of all days! No wonder you sound on edge.’

‘Why should I be on edge?’

‘I assume that it’s dinner for six tonight?’

‘I think so.’

‘Then Lucy Beresford—the biggest gossip in town—will take it for granted that you and Jack are, or are intending to be, a couple too.’

‘Oh, God! I hadn’t thought of that.’

‘Well, I had. Have you seen Jack lately?’

‘We shared a Chinese here last night.’

‘Does this mean you’re getting back with him, then?’ Anna demanded.

‘No. At least not in the way you mean.

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