Ready for King's Seduction by Maureen Child

Author:Maureen Child
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2011-09-02T22:00:00+00:00

Staring at the computer screen doing the books for her business wasn’t taking Rose’s mind off of Lucas King. She rubbed her gritty eyes, shook her head and tried to focus again, but even she could see it was useless.

Everything on the screen might as well have been in Greek. Numbers seemed to run together. Red and black. Clients and suppliers. Appointments and schedules. All of it was blurred into a distorted mess that seemed to taunt her feelings of ineptitude. That’s what she got for trying to work when she was so tired she could hardly see straight.

“But to be fair,” she said aloud in the stillness, “I suck at this end of the business even on a good day.”

Frowning, she kicked back in her chair, lifting her sneaker-clad feet to the corner of her desk. Her small home office was brutally organized. Not a paper out of place. There were file cabinets, a three-in-one copier/printer/fax machine and a top-of-the-line computer on a simple wood desk. She glanced at the framed poster of Ireland hanging on the wall and briefly wished she were there on that rocky coast, with the wind in her hair.

But that thought only lasted a moment as she sighed and glanced around the room. She had been so determined, when she started Home Cooking Taught at Home, to be the quintessential businesswoman. And for a while, she had made a good job of it. Until last night. Rose was pretty sure quintessential didn’t mean sleeping with your clients—or rather not sleeping, but having amazing, soul-shaking, body-burning sex.

Her feet dropped to the floor as her stomach pitched.

“Oh, God.” She lowered her head to the desk until her forehead hit with a thunk. Rose sat up abruptly, reaching to rub her forehead.

She could be pregnant.

“No, don’t think that, and for heaven’s sake, don’t say it out loud,” she whispered, shaking her head. All she needed was to throw that challenge out to the universe. Pregnancy was not in her business plan. Or in her life plan for that matter. Sure, someday, she’d love to have children. Had always wanted them, in fact…but not yet. She knew there were women out there who managed to be single moms and work and have a life and pull it off beautifully.

But that’s not what she wanted.

Even with her miserable marriage in her background, Rose still wanted the fairy tale.

“Of course, they were called Grimm fairy tales for a reason,” she told herself with a sigh. Oh, yeah, she was in great shape. Her mind wandering down long, twisting paths that went exactly nowhere and made her feel absolutely no better.

Trying to work was pointless, she finally admitted. No way was she going to be able to concentrate. Her gaze shifted to the noticeably silent phone on the corner of her desk. She had half expected Lucas to call and didn’t know what she would say to him if he did. But the fact that he hadn’t was beginning to really tick her off.

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