Miranda Lee - The Billionaire's Bride of Convenience by Anja

Author:Anja
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2012-05-06T08:08:09+00:00

CHAPTER ELEVEN

HUGH’S apartment block came as a surprise to Kathryn. Firstly, it was a rather ordinary-looking building, about five or six storeys high. Secondly, there was little security to speak of, although he did use a plastic key-card to get into the underground car park. Not quite where you would expect a billionaire’s son and heir to live. Still, it did overlook Bondi Beach and, inside, it was probably very luxurious.

Hugh parked his Ferrari in one of the two spaces allotted to apartment number twelve, then he escorted a—by then— extremely tense Kathryn to the lift.

‘You can talk now,’ he said with a wry smile her way. ‘We’re safely here.’

‘I’m not sure I want to talk,’ she replied somewhat stiffly. How could she possibly chatter when all she could think about was what they were about to do?

‘That’s fine by me,’ he said in gravelly tones, and pressed the button on the third floor.

That surprised her too. She’d been thinking he probably lived in the penthouse.

‘How about kissing?’ he asked after the lift doors closed and the lift began to move. ‘No, don’t answer that. I don’t really want to be compelled to ravage you in this lift. I want to take my time. And I want you naked.’

Kathryn’s hand tightened around her carry-all. Dear heaven…

The lift stopped smoothly on the third floor, the doors opening with a soft, swooshing sound.

‘This way,’ he said, and led her down a plushly carpeted corridor to a door with the number twelve on it.

His apartment was spacious without being excessively large, the living room filled with an assortment of furniture and an eclectic mix of expensive objets d’art. The floor was polished timber, with an assortment of colourful rugs. The effect was warm and inviting, unlike his father’s designer-decorated but extremely cold-looking penthouse.

‘This way,’ he directed again, and taking her hand, drew her down a side hallway into a bedroom which was huge… and utterly devoted to a billionaire bachelor’s pleasure: shag-pile carpet underfoot, a king-sized bed and a plasma television built into the wall opposite the bed. On either side of the TV, sliding glass doors opened up out onto a wide balcony with the most breathtaking view of Bondi Beach. A doorway in the middle of a side wall gave Kathryn glimpses of a spacious en suite bathroom with a corner spa bath.

‘Do you want to use the bathroom?’ he asked her.

She nodded.

‘I do too,’ he told her. ‘I’ll duck down to the main bathroom. See you shortly.’

This interlude presented Kathryn with the opportunity for a reality check. Or it would have, if this whole scenario had felt real.

But it didn’t.

‘What is it he sees in me?’ she asked her reflection in the bathroom mirror.

Kathryn knew that physically she couldn’t compare with the kind of woman Hugh usually dated and obviously slept with: actresses and models, mostly, all of whom possessed outstanding beauty and figures which looked just as good without clothes.

A shudder ran through her as she thought of the

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