Seduced by the Powerful Boss by Penny Jordan

Author:Penny Jordan [Jordan, Penny]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781488032066
Publisher: Harlequin Presents
Published: 1988-09-01T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIX

DESPITE HER OBJECTIONS, Susannah sensed Emma’s relief when she was told of their plans.

The cupboards and freezer were well stocked, she told her, so they need have no worries about running out of food.

‘Whether or not you’ll be able to eat anything hot, though, is another matter. The range…’

‘I think I can handle it,’ Susannah told her, explaining that she had virtually grown up with something very similar.

‘There’s a chicken in the fridge that I was going to cook for lunch. Perhaps we could have that tonight…’

‘A good idea,’ Susannah agreed. ‘Is there anything you’d like? Something to read?’

In point of fact, Dr Barnes had told them that she had given Emma a sedative that would make her sleep but, guessing that the older woman would try to fight its effects if she knew, Susannah said nothing.

‘No, I don’t think so, thank you, my dear. To be honest, I’m feeling rather tired.’

‘I won’t disturb you, then.’

‘Please make yourselves at home. I’m afraid I can’t provide Hazard with anything in the way of pyjamas—my husband never wore them. You’ll find aired sheets and pillowslips in the airing cupboard, and there’s a nightdress in the bottom drawer in the chest in the next bedroom. One of my nieces bought it for me, but it isn’t my style.’ She chuckled. ‘To be honest, I prefer a pair of thermal pyjamas these days; I always get so terribly cold in bed. My late husband used to complain that my feet felt like blocks of ice.’ She sighed and yawned, and Susannah suspected that, by the time she was downstairs, Emma would be fast asleep.

‘There’s a phone in Emma’s study,’ Hazard told her when she got downstairs. ‘We don’t need to alert the office at this stage, but if you’ve made any arrangements for the weekend…’

‘None,’ Susannah told him. ‘You…you don’t have to stay on,’ she added, hoping her voice would not give away how much she wanted him to. ‘I…I think I can manage.’

‘I’m staying. Think what they’re going to say to us at work when we get back?’ he teased her. ‘The pair of us, virtually alone here, in a remote farmhouse!’

Reporters had fertile minds, and Susannah pressed her hands to her hot face as she contemplated the type of remarks her colleagues were likely to make.

‘Don’t look so anguished. No one need know.’

Why did she feel he had withdrawn from her slightly? She looked at him and saw that his eyes were faintly shadowed.

‘I’m sorry. It’s just that I’m not used…’ She broke off, uncomfortably aware of where her unguarded words were leading her, and her flush deepened. Her guilt at deceiving him, not once but twice, brought a small worried frown to her forehead.

‘You know, you amaze me at times! One minute the hardened sophisticate, the next, a shy innocent…’

Desperate to stop him probing, Susannah forced a brittle laugh. ‘That’s women for you. All of us a part-chameleon!’

‘I think I’d better take a look at the boiler.’ Hazard started moving away from her.

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