Outbid by the Boss by Stephanie Browning

Author:Stephanie Browning [Browning, Stephanie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romance, fiction, contemporary
Publisher: Self-published
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

After a dizzying morning of foxes, hounds and horses, punctuated by the odd landscape, Sam found herself in a little used reception room on the second floor staring into the stern eyes of a dour woman wearing the dark finery of the late 19th-century. This old girl was definitely a Porter. She peered at Sam through hooded eyes, punctuated by a familiar hawk-like nose.

Sam shivered. Chas was lucky. On him, those harsh features were an enhancement. They made him look strong and commanding, and virile.

“Boo!”

Sam whirled around to see her boss standing directly behind her! “You scared me,” she charged.

“Sorry about that,” grinned Chas. “But I’m not surprised. You looked as though you’d fallen under the spell of Agnes the miserable, the elder sister of my great-great uncle. Direct action was required.”

“She is rather…austere,” said Sam.

“When my grandmother arrived at the Hall, she took one look at the portrait, and banished Aunt Agnes to the attic where she languished for,” Chas shrugged, “sixty years or more.”

Sam nodded in heartfelt agreement. “I can see why your grandmother packed poor Agnes away. The question is why bring her out again?”

Chas grimaced. “Even the best of families get down to the dregs when money’s tight. In our case, it was Aunt Agnes. A bad artist and a sour expression are a deadly combination, don’t you think?”

“I can’t argue with that.” Sam turned to smile at Chas, feeling the heat of attraction once again. Even the baleful glare of his ancestor couldn’t dim the flare of feeling she had for this man. Their eyes met and the moment stretched.

With a slight jerk, Chas stepped away. “Lunch in an hour?”

“Perfect.” Despite her resolve to be professional, Sam’s body rebelled. She watched him walk the length of the gallery, shamelessly ogling his muscular physique from head to toe, taking care to note how the tailor-made, fawn-coloured trousers accentuated his trim waist and perfect backside. Mia would be so proud of her, thought Sam. She knew her office buddy thought she was a prude, but here she was with her eyes glued to her boss’s behind. And what a behind.

As Chas neared the end of the gallery, Sam quickly switched her concentration back to Aunt Agnes and started scribbling in her notebook. A good thing as she saw him look back briefly out of the corner of her eye before he disappeared from sight. Sam checked her watch. Fifty-five minutes and they’d be together again.

“Pull yourself together, Sam,” she muttered. “Next thing you know you’ll be talking to Aunt Agnes.” She raised her eyes to the portrait. “I guess I already am.” The elderly woman stared down at her, in sympathy or in admonishment, Sam couldn’t decide. Perhaps she, too, had lusted after a man like Chas in her youth, maybe even stolen a kiss by the stream as she and Chas had when Max and Damien had sent them both tumbling into the mud. Even now, beneath the condescending gaze of Chas’ great-great aunt, all Sam

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