Sensual Encounter by Carole Mortimer

Author:Carole Mortimer [Mortimer, Carole]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781488034671
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2018-08-21T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIX

HER first thought was that he looked older. Her second that he looked very unhappy.

And that knowledge gave her none of the exhilaration she had thought she would feel if the misery he had inflicted on her when he broke their engagement so callously rebounded on him.

‘Can I come in?’ His voice was gruff.

Kate opened the door wider for him to enter, not saying a word, taking the few minutes it took him to walk into the lounge to collect her own thoughts together. Brian had changed considerably in the three months since she had last seen him. Beside the obvious physical changes, the weary look about his eyes, the petulant droop to his mouth, he was also slimmer, the tailored cream suit and black silk shirt he had on much more expensive than the clothes he used to wear.

The obvious elegance of his clothing made her very selfconscious of her own attire, the black silk robe over her nakedness, her hair still damp down her back, her face bare of make-up. But what did it matter how she looked? Brian was as far removed from her now as the moon was; the plain gold wedding ring on his finger, and the diamond one on her own, dictated that it had to be so.

He looked at her with velvet brown eyes, the same velvet brown eyes that had always sent a thrill of anticipation down her spine. Now she felt nothing, only curiosity as to his reason for coming here.

‘I wasn’t sure you would be at home yet.’ His voice was still husky, a little uncertain.

She shrugged dismissively. ‘I left early.’

His dark brows quirked, the same coal-black colour as the hair that was styled so neatly over his collar and ears, the same dark hair that he had assured her time and time again he didn’t have the time to get cut when she had teased him about the fact that it was too long. He seemed to have found the time now. To look at him now was like looking at a stranger, a very expensively dressed, perfectly groomed stranger.

‘That’s unusual for you, isn’t it?’ he said softly, his hands thrust into his trouser pockets, as if he weren’t quite sure what to do with them.

‘Perhaps,’ she conceded distantly.

He nodded, chewing on his inner lip. ‘Er—Coral said she saw you yesterday.’

‘She did,’ Kate nodded.

‘She was lunching with a—a friend,’ the explanation seemed forced out of him. ‘Paul Lincoln, actually, the man who’s showing my exhibition for me.’

‘Oh yes,’ she nodded coolly, and moved to sit in one of the armchairs, holding her robe over her legs as she crossed one knee over the other. ‘How is it going?’

A nerve began to pulsate in his jawline, his mouth tightening. ‘Very well. In fact, it’s a sell-out,’ he revealed tautly.

He didn’t look exactly pleased by the fact. ‘That’s good, isn’t it?’ Kate frowned at his attitude.

‘Is it?’ he said bitterly. ‘A lot of high-class snobs who want “something” to hang on their wall that won’t clash with the décor or furnishings!’ His mouth twisted in disgust.

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