Nice Girls Finish Last by Natalie Anderson

Author:Natalie Anderson [Anderson, Natalie]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: HP 2011-11 Nov
ISBN: 9780373528394
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2011-11-01T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHT

HE was right, of course. Lena stood in the small conference room, ridiculously self-conscious in front of the youths. Tension sawed through her nerves and the unseasonably muggy weather shredded her concentration. She tried not to look at the man leaning against the back wall. Just the thought of him had kept her awake all night. And in the few minutes when she had snatched some sleep, he’d haunted her dreams. Oh, how he’d haunted them.

As soon as she was done she fled back upstairs and put some music on, thumped her keyboard as she worked to get her inbox emptier. Even so, she heard the playful shouts and calls from the kids now out on the field. Then both the music playing and the boys’ noise were drowned by a drumming from overhead.

She ran to the viewing window. Hail. In late summer. Marble-sized balls of ice pitting the ground. Christchurch was famed for going through four seasons in one day, but this was just ridiculous.

The boys and Andrew were running off the pitch. But not Seth. He walked behind them, unfazed by the malevolence of the sudden storm, his tee shirt sodden in one second. It clung. He didn’t hide his face from the ferocity of the hailstones; instead—as if he had some sixth sense—he looked up, searching.

She knew he saw her at the window because he stopped still. Despite the distance it was as if he could see into her soul. And it was burning hot for him. She put both her hands on the glass as if it could cool her. But there was only one thing that could douse her inferno.

Seth ran up the stairs and sprinted along the stadium’s corridors. He knew he could have convinced her last night but he wanted absolute surrender. Now he knew he had it, but strangely his imminent victory didn’t please him. Instead he felt unsettled. She’d opened up a little last night but not a lot. It only made him more curious. He wanted to know everything. And, damn it, his head was so messed he couldn’t find her in this rabbit warren now.

Finally he got there. She stood exactly as he’d seen her from the pitch. A slim figure at the window in a navy dress with her hair sleek. Motionless, she gazed out at the mad weather. She couldn’t have heard his footsteps over the din of the ice dump. He walked up behind her but kept an inch of space between them, not wanting to get her beautiful outfit all wet. But he reached out and placed his hands over hers, pressed them ever so slightly harder on the glass.

She didn’t even flinch—she was that tense already, her muscles couldn’t tighten more. So she had sensed him.

‘Where are the boys?’ Despite the hail hammering the steel roof, he heard her quiet whisper.

‘With Andrew. Going to watch a DVD.’

‘Shouldn’t you be with them?’

‘In a minute.’

He took half that minute to catch his breath. His chest ached as if he’d been working out for hours.

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