One Night She Would Never Forget by Amy Andrews

Author:Amy Andrews
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2013-10-17T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

AND THEY WERE good. So good. For four weeks. Four long weeks where, thanks to Helen and Dot, they went on clandestine dates and behaved impeccably. Patrick chose crowded places and they took two cars. They didn’t so much as hold hands. They just enjoyed each other’s company. Laughed and talked and relaxed.

As much as two people who wanted to rip each other’s clothes off could relax.

They also kept it strictly professional at work despite the gossip swirling around them and Lilly’s best efforts to ascertain the status of their relationship. Even in front of the girls they kept up a polite and friendly veneer.

Lola and Ruby were becoming inseparable and as heartening as it was to see their girls getting on so well together, it also served as a reminder to Patrick and Miranda to keep their priorities straight. If they stuffed the relationship up, they wouldn’t be the only casualties. Two little girls would also suffer.

On their one-month anniversary Patrick picked Miranda up in a limo after decreeing earlier that day she wear a pretty dress and her dancing shoes. Miranda gaped at the sleek white machine that beckoned from the kerb.

‘Are you sure?’ she said, already swooning over the tux that clung to his broad shoulders and thinking about what they could accomplish in the back of such a decadent ride. ‘It looks like it might be hard to stick to the whole no-sex thing inside that.’

Patrick looked at her with a faux horrified expression. ‘I can assure you, as your prom date, my intentions are completely honourable.’

Miranda couldn’t quite believe what she’d heard. ‘Prom date?’ she said, trying to keep the tremor of excitement out of her voice.

He grinned. ‘Dot told me you never got to yours.’

She shook her head as a surge of something big and hot welled in her chest. ‘No, I didn’t.’

He opened the door for her. ‘Then your carriage awaits.’

Once inside Patrick produced a corsage of tiny white roses and placed it on her wrist. Miranda stroked the delicate petals. ‘It’s beautiful,’ she said, looking into his eyes.

Patrick shook his head. ‘You’re beautiful.’

They stared at each other for long moments until a voice from the front said, ‘Are you sure you don’t want me to put the partition up, sir?’

Patrick dragged his gaze from Miranda’s delectable face. ‘Positive, thanks, Larry. We’re going to need a chaperon.’

The chauffeur laughed and said, ‘Right you are, sir.’

The limo pulled away from the kerb and Miranda said, ‘Where are we going?’

Patrick just smiled. ‘Patience, prom queen, patience.’

Three quarters of an hour later they rolled to a stop in a hilly wooded area. Larry waited with the parked limo while Patrick led Miranda through some trees to a small clearing already set out with a picnic blanket and lit on the perimeter by hanging paper lanterns. A gentle breeze caressed her skin and the city lights twinkled in the distance.

Miranda gasped. ‘Patrick, this is amazing.’

He smiled as he leaned down and pushed a button on the portable CD player that sat beside the champagne bucket.

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