Passion's Baby

Author:Catherine Spencer [Spencer, Catherine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Fiction, Contemporary, C429, Kat, Extratorrents
ISBN: 9781459202856
Google: IUTnmnr-XZsC
Amazon: B004NY9AJ6
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2011-02-20T22:00:00+00:00

She might as well have shown up in prison garb the next night, for all the impact she made on Liam.

“You look different,” he said, after he’d ordered a bottle of Shiraz to go with their Chateaubriand. “You’re wearing stuff on your eyes.”

Stuff? The hours she’d spent laboring over her appearance—airing out the gauzy, silk-fringed shawl, pinning her hair in a sleek coil and anchoring it in place with a silver comb, pinching her earlobes with lapis lazuli earrings as heavy as pigeon’s eggs—all that amounted to nothing more than stuff on her eyes? “It’s called mascara and eye shadow,” she informed stonily.

“Uh-oh! I said something wrong?”

“Not at all.”

“Why the fishy-eyed glare, then?”

“You’re imagining things, Liam,” she said, affecting nonchalance. “I’m perfectly delighted to be here and having a wonderful time. And just for the record, you look different, too. Positively clean, for a change.”

In fact, in black slacks and a long-sleeved white shirt, he looked more handsome than the law allowed. Every woman in the place was eyeing him as if he were the star attraction on the menu, and she herself…oh, she was having difficulty not drooling!

He grinned. “Gee, thanks—I think!”

“I can only suppose your improved appearance is what persuaded them to let us in here tonight.”

“They’d have let me in if I’d been in my birthday suit, Janie,” he said smugly. “I have connections in high places. All that was required was a phone call to the right party, a small detail I took care of this morning. I never for a moment doubted we’d be allowed in.” With a superbly negligent gesture, he indicated their table, wedged snugly between the dance floor and a window overlooking the sea. “Or that we’d be given one of the best spots in the house.”

“How nice to be so sure of one’s welcome,” she said, the image of him wearing nothing but his smile nibbling great holes in her composure. “And how wonderful that you managed to get your cell phone working again. One wonders how one ever managed without such modern miracles.”

“One does, indeed!” Deriving great entertainment at her expense, he grinned sunnily. Then, when the attempt to charm her fell on stony ground, he reared back in his seat and said, “Does one have a lemon in one’s mouth perchance? Or a bee up one’s—?”

“Don’t be vulgar, Liam.”

“My apologies. Let me try to rephrase the question in such a way as not to offend your sensibilities.” Smile fading, he tapped his altogether beautiful front teeth with his fingernail a moment, then said, “Something’s got you badly bent out of shape. Is it the company you’re keeping? Having second thoughts about being seen in public with me?”

“The idea has crossed my mind.”

“How so? You seemed to think it was a good idea when I first mentioned it.”

“It still could be,” she burst out, furious with him because he was so obtuse, and with herself because she was ready to cry with frustration and disappointment. The evening was going down

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