Penny Jordan's Wedding Nights--3 Book Box Set by Penny Jordan

Author:Penny Jordan [Jordan, Penny]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781460888605
Publisher: Mills & Boon Special Release
Published: 2012-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIX

‘POPPY, can you come down to my office, please? There’s something we need to discuss.’

Poppy could feel the palms of her hands growing clammy with nervous perspiration as she clung tightly to the telephone receiver.

‘Does it have to be now, James?’ she asked tersely. ‘only I’m just in the middle of working on those Japanese documents you want and—’

‘Now, Poppy,’ James interrupted her curtly.

As Poppy replaced the receiver she stared unseeingly through her office window, oblivious to the neat trimness of the grass borders broken up by colourful patches of shrubs which decorated the company’s car park.

They had been back from Italy almost ten weeks—long enough, surely, for her to have at least begun to get over the shock of what had happened when they were there. But instead she had taken to avoiding James as much as she possibly could and suspected that he was doing exactly the same thing with her.

Pushing her chair away from her desk, she stood up, gritting her teeth against the nervous dizziness making her head swim and her heart pound with sick tension.

Unlike most heads of businesses, James preferred to have his office on the ground floor. It helped to keep his feet on the ground, he had once told Poppy sternly when she had questioned such unusual behaviour. A successful business was like a pyramid, he had added obliquely, and whoever stood at its peak was in a very vulnerable position unless he or she knew that the base on which it was constructed was stable and able to support the rest of the structure.

Then, as a teenager, Poppy hadn’t truly understood what he meant; now she did and, albeit rather begrudgingly, had to respect him for it.

As she hurried down the two flights of stairs to the ground floor she wondered nervously why James wanted to see her. It couldn’t be anything to do with the documents she was working on, they hadn’t reached the deadline for those yet.

Walking along the corridor to James’s office, she saw that the door to Chris’s office was open, but, true to the vow she had made herself on the day of his and Sally’s wedding, she refused to give in to the temptation to look to see if he was there.

There was no sign of James’s secretary as Poppy hovered outside his closed office door. She knocked reluctantly and then went in.

James was seated behind the desk which, like all the other furniture in the room, was strictly utilitarian. He did not believe in wasting company money on nonproductive luxuries, and yet, disconcertingly, the lack of normal, status-symbol fittings seemed to emphasise the aura of leadership and power that emanated from him rather than diminish it.

He was her cousin as well as her boss and it was ridiculous that she should feel like a child summoned before a disapproving teacher, Poppy decided as she waited to hear why he had sent for her.

There were some papers on the desk in front of him and her heart missed a beat as she saw the familiar letterhead of the Italian spa.

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