Second-time Bride by Lynne Graham

Author:Lynne Graham [Graham, Lynne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2010-05-31T14:41:37+00:00

Daisy flinched as he thrust back his chair and sprang upright. 'Can I go back to work now?' she asked in a small and not very hopeful voice.

Alessio spread his lean brown hands wide in a frustrated arc. His smouldering golden gaze sizzled across the room and landed on her quailing figure like forked lightning. 'No, you may not go back to work!'

'There's no need to shout—'

'It's shout or strangle you!'

Daisy stood up. 'I was listening.'

'How much did you take in?'

'Were you expecting me to take notes?' Daisy demanded defensively.

In the act of leaving the room, Alessio stopped dead, his broad shoulders rigid. The atmosphere was electric.

'Hang on every word the way I used to?' Daisy continued with unconcealed rancour.

'Even then your mind wandered places I could never follow,' Alessio acknowledged gruffly without turning his head. 'We are very different people.'

For some peculiar reason that reminder distressed her, yet it was an undeniable truth. Alessio was an extrovert, but he didn't show his emotions—not the private ones anyway—and he was always in control. Daisy was an introvert, but love had smashed her barriers and she had poured out on Alessio all the tierce emotion and affection that no one else had ever wanted from her. She had been dangerously out of control. Afterwards, she had promised herself that she would never bare herself to another human being like that again. And, with the single exception of her daughter, she had kept that promise.

'Yes.. .’ she acknowledged unevenly, and just in case he might be thinking of that humiliating inequality she added, 'You're organised and practical and sensible. You don't lose things or forget things or...or fall over or off things.1 Sucking in a shaky breath, Daisy pinned her lips shut with an effort, her eyes suddenly smarting with tears. At seventeen she had been dumb enough to think that those differences meant that they complemented each other.

'Exasperatingly efficient but with not much in the way of imagination?' Alessio queried silkily. 'Possibly I am about to surprise you.'

'Surprise me?’ Daisy questioned.

He swung back another door and stood back for her to precede him. Her fine brows knit as she walked through and glanced round a room obviously used as an office. She cleared her throat uncertainly. 'Why have you brought me in here?'

His strong dark face hardened. 'I didn’t want to have

to do this, Daisy.' Goose-flesh prickled at the sensitive nape of her neck.

'Do what?'

'It was not my intention to use undue pressure/

'Undue pressure?' Daisy queried slightly shrilly, already calculating the distance she was from the door, her fertile imagination running riot.

'I have employed every means of rational persuasion within my power.'

'Tara...' Daisy sighed limply.

Alessio lifted a thick document from the desk and held it out to her.

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