One Chance at Love by Carole Mortimer

Author:Carole Mortimer [Mortimer, Carole]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction, Romance, General, College Teachers
ISBN: 9780373111176
Publisher: Harlequin Books
Published: 1988-09-30T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

‘BUT what does he want to talk to you about?’ Christi persisted.

The two of them were eating a late breakfast together and, although Dizzy hadn’t relished telling her friend about her appointment with Zach this morning, she had realised it had to be done.

She had told Christi about Kate waking up the night before, how both she and Zach had gone down to investigate, what she hadn’t told her friend was that she and Zach had been together in her bedroom when they had heard Kate cry! Without that relevant piece of information, his asking to see her this morning seemed slightly out of context.

‘Maybe he’s thinking of asking me to take over full-time as cook, while Mrs Scott goes off to take care of her family?’ she teased. ‘At least I’d be earning my keep!’

‘I hate it when you’re flippant,’ Christi reproved gently.

Dizzy shrugged unconcernedly. ‘Well, then, maybe he wants to ask me to leave so that there’s one less mouth to cater for.’

‘I don’t believe that.’ Christi shook her head, looking very beautiful in the rich blue sun-dress that perfectly matched the colour of her eyes. Next to her, in her denims and green vest-top, Dizzy felt less attractive than she usually did!

She sipped her coffee. ‘Then I’m as much in the dark as you are,’ she dismissed, not quite truthfully, for she was sure that last night in her bedroom would enter into the conversation somewhere.

Christi chewed on her bottom lip, uncaring of the fact that the act removed her lipgloss. ‘Maybe I should have a word with him——’

‘No!’ Dizzy drew in a steadying breath as Christi looked at her sharply for her outburst. She really would have to calm down, or Christi would have the truth out of her, and then there would be no stopping the other woman from her matchmaking! ‘I’m sure it’s nothing important,’ she said brightly.

Christi gave her a suspicious frown, but she didn’t pressure her any further. ‘I shall expect a full report when you’re through,’ she warned, as Dizzy went off to keep her appointment.

She hesitated outside the lounge. She knew Zach was in there, because Mrs Scott had just performed her last duty before she and Kate went off to meet her son-in-law at the airport, the coffee just waiting in the lounge for Dizzy to go in and pour it.

She straightened her shoulders and took a deep breath, before firmly opening the door and entering the room, faltering only slightly as Zach looked up at her without the screen of his glasses to lessen the impact of those beautiful honey-brown eyes.

The baggy tweed jacket was back today, with an open-necked shirt that didn’t look as if he had slept in it—something she knew he didn’t do, anyway— and a pair of neatly pressed brown trousers. The clothes still didn’t fit him that well, but they were an improvement on that first day.

Dizzy’s heart skipped a beat as her gaze once more returned to his face, affected as she usually was by the male perfection she found there.

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