Penny Jordan - [Perfect Family -2] - The Perfect Seduction.htm by [The Crightons 02] The Perfect Seduction.htm

Author:[The Crightons 02] The Perfect Seduction.htm
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2011-04-16T00:46:00+00:00

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CHAPTER SIX

Queensmead was very much as she had pictured it, Bobbie realised: a large, gracious house set in its own grounds reached via a traditional sweeping drive, its seventeenth-century stone facade draped in the soft tendrils of a huge wisteria.

Although ostensibly Bobbie was merely attending the family get-together as Amelia's temporary nanny, virtually as soon as they had entered the house, Olivia had deftly removed Amelia from her arms and told Bobbie firmly that she was to make sure she enjoyed herself and that she was certainly going to enjoy showing her daughter off to her relatives.

Despite its generous proportions, the large drawing room was very crowded. Jon and Jenny, who had arrived ahead of them with the twins, Joss and Olivia's younger brother, claimed her attention whilst Louise and Katie thanked her for the small antique brooches she had given them as their eighteenth-birthday presents.

'I'll have to take you over to introduce you to Gramps,' Olivia told her as she handed Amelia over to an admiring Jenny.

'Ben's not in a very good mood, I'm afraid,' Jenny warned them ruefully, adding quietly, 'I think having Max here reminds him of your father, Olivia. I rather think he feels that Jon isn't doing as much as he could to try to track David down.'

'Dad won't be found unless he wants to be found,' Olivia responded tersely. 'I just wish that Gramps could see that, but then he's always had a blind spot where

Dad is concerned. I wish sometimes I could tell him the truth,' she declared fiercely.

'I doubt that he would believe you if you did. He needs to cling on to his faith in David, his belief in him,' Jenny told her wisely. 'I'm sorry, Bobbie,' Jenny apologised. 'We're being very rude, talking about family matters and ignoring you.'

'Bobbie is almost a member of the family,' Olivia insisted and then added slyly, 'and very soon she might become one officially, as well.'

Whilst Bobbie protested, her cheeks burning hotly, Jenny gave her an interested look but didn't press the matter, leaving it to Olivia to explain.

'Luke's pretty smitten with Bobbie,' she elaborated whilst teasingly shaking her head as Bobbie tried to contradict what she was saying. 'It's no good,' Olivia said, laughing. 'The pair of you have given yourselves away too clearly to start denying it now.'

'Hello there. I was hoping we might get to meet again.'

Bobbie turned thankfully towards Max as he strolled over to join them, his arrival a welcome interruption, although it was obvious that Olivia didn't think so because almost immediately she announced, 'I was just about to take Bobbie to introduce her to Gramps, Max, so I'm afraid you'll have to excuse us.'

'You haven't met my grandfather yet?' Max asked Bobbie, pointedly ignoring his cousin as he turned his back to her, effectively blocking her out of the conversation. Instead, he concentrated on Bobbie, giving her the benefit of his heated crocodile smile and a look that slid slowly from the top of her head all the way down to her toes.

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