One Week to Win His Heart by Lucy Clark

Author:Lucy Clark [Clark, Lucy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2018-01-11T19:56:23+00:00

CHAPTER TEN

MELODY DIDN’T SLEEP at all well that night and when she did manage to drift off sometime before dawn, she dreamt she was anxiously trying to glue a vase back together. The pieces were tiny and the tears she was crying kept blurring her vision. She stood and looked down at the mess and only then did she realise that the vase was heart-shaped.

The realisation only increased the urgency as she was expecting a new delivery of flowers at any minute. Working frantically, Melody managed to piece the heart-shaped vase back together. The doorbell rang and she hurried to open it. There stood George, holding a bunch of roses. Melody stared aghast at the vase. She couldn’t accept the flowers from George because the vase was still drying.

She wanted the flowers but where was she going to put them? Anxiousness and fear gripped Melody’s heart as George held the flowers out to her. What was she going to do?

She sat bolt upright in bed, her heart pounding fiercely against her ribs. ‘Just a dream,’ she whispered to herself. She lay back and sighed, breathing deeply. She glanced at the clock and realised it was one minute before her alarm was due to go off. ‘So much for a good night’s sleep,’ she muttered, and clambered out of bed.

She glanced at herself in the mirror. She looked horrible. ‘Perhaps a little make-up might be in order today.’ Melody finished getting dressed, deciding that she wouldn’t chance breakfast as her stomach didn’t feel settled.

She arrived at the hospital and went straight to the ward. All through the round, she kept anxiously glancing at the door in case George decided to join them again. He didn’t. Feeling a bit flat, she returned to her office, hoping to catch up on paperwork before her theatre list began in half an hour.

Sitting at her desk, it wasn’t long before further thoughts of George intruded and, instead of fighting them, she gave in. She was exhausted from fighting her emotions, as well as lack of sleep. She thought about her dream, reflecting on the symbolism of the heart-shaped vase. It was true that Emir had broken her heart but she’d managed to mend it.

With George, her feelings for him were so out of proportion in comparison to what she’d previously felt. She’d been committed to marrying Emir, to spending the rest of her life with him. He’d been a charmer, just like George. He’d been a gentleman, just like George. He’d been a dashingly handsome man, just like George. He’d wooed her, made her feel special, made her feel as though she was valued.

Well, George hadn’t wooed her exactly, but he did make her feel special. Melody realised the biggest difference between George and Emir was that George appreciated her intelligence, that he treated her as though she had a brain to talk things out, to be open and honest. Right from the start George had been upfront about the attraction between them, and

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