Playing the Playboy's Sweetheart by Carol Marinelli

Author:Carol Marinelli [Marinelli, Carol]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2014-09-10T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

TWICE?

Emily stood in the shower and let the water run over her.

And she had a feeling Hugh would be more than happy to go for a third time the second Jennifer and Alex left.

He’d said he wanted to hear her moan.

She blew out a breath of laughter as she imagined some version of the Benny Hill Show taking place in the cottage as they chased each other around, but her laughter strangled because she wanted to get back to her safe haven.

This time she had brought her clothes into the bathroom and would emerge fully dressed and with her make-up on and then get breakfast ready for her guests.

And then see them all off, and she wasn’t just thinking about Alex and Jennifer.

Hugh might think, given what had taken place this morning, that the rules had changed, but to Emily it just made her more certain that a relationship with Hugh would be a very foolish thing.

She was crazy about him.

Emily massaged conditioner into her hair and she loathed where she was—crazy about someone, that illogical place she’d avoided for more than half of her life.

Oh, it was different, of course, from the other loves in her life.

Dangerously different—for this had the potential for even more hurt.

Back to friends, back to business, Emily told herself as she dried herself off and got dressed.

She tied her hair back and then headed downstairs, where Hugh was making breakfast as he chatted to Alex and Jennifer.

‘We’ve got two places we’re hoping to see today,’ Jennifer said.

‘Three,’ Alex said, ‘though we’ll only be driving past the third one, it hasn’t yet come on the market.’ He turned and smiled as Emily came in. ‘Good morning.’

‘Morning,’ Emily said. Hugh handed her a mug of tea and she took a seat at the kitchen table.

No, she didn’t offer to help Hugh, though she did notice when she went to put marmalade on her toast that he hadn’t put out her favourite one.

Hugh gave her a wink as she looked up and she gave him a smile but inside she wavered, because it would be so easy to give in, to just fall a bit further into the man who spoke the same language without words.

And then she felt mean.

Hugh laughed when she got up and got out the very, very nice marmalade.

‘The things I do to further your career,’ Emily said, when Alex and Jennifer had gone and she put the lid on a nearly empty jar.

‘I’ll buy you a box of them,’ Hugh said. ‘You should have seen your face when they went for their fourth slices.’

‘Scavengers,’ Emily said. ‘No wonder they were so hungry!’ It was all too nice and too easy to be nice and easy with Hugh so she made herself say it. ‘What time are you heading off?’

She saw the slight rise of his eyebrows and knew her message had just been delivered—she wanted him gone, she wanted to get back to her holiday, and what had happened upstairs, well, there it would remain.

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