Sons Of Australia: The Mackays: Australian Boss: Diamond RingSurprise: Outback ProposalTempted by Her Tycoon Boss by Jennie Adams

Author:Jennie Adams [Adams, Jennie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin Australia
Published: 2016-12-15T06:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

THE evening passed slowly for Jayne. She couldn’t stop thinking about Alex’s meeting. Was it going okay? Was he hearing good news? Or bad?

‘There you are. You’re back. I didn’t mean to hover in the hallway. I just stepped out for a moment.’ Jayne babbled the words and stopped abruptly. ‘Sorry. The last thing you probably need is me blabbing at you.’ She searched Alex’s face. ‘How…how did things go?’

‘It was a little intense.’ Alex felt drained. It had been a deep and at times frustrating few hours. He was still processing the meeting with several local elders.

‘I’ve got a suite with a separate sitting room,’ Jayne offered. ‘Would you like a coffee or a cold drink?’

He hesitated for a moment, but he could probably benefit from talking the meeting over a bit. It might help clarify his thoughts. ‘That’d be nice.’

They sat with a bottle of soft drink each and Alex started to sift through his thoughts. ‘None of the elders could place me.’

At least they’d met him, and they’d tried. ‘They all met me at once, so there’s no meeting now for tomorrow.’

‘And this one didn’t get as far as you’d hoped?’ Jayne’s hand closed over his where it rested on the table. ‘I’m sorry, Alex. Is there more that can be done?’

Her fingers were soft and gentle, and it made Alex feel like a big baby for wanting to…hold on.

‘I don’t know where to take it from here. I’m usually decisive.’ It would have been easy for Alex to want to bury his disappointment here, now, with Jayne. He wanted to—wanted her—and, because he already felt vulnerable, he got to his feet.

If his father’s identity remained a mystery to him, he’d deal with it. ‘I have an invitation from the elders to come back to Alice Springs and spend some time with them.’ Alex appreciated that and one day he would probably do it. He did want to understand his history and embrace cultural aspects of himself that he hadn’t done until now, even if he couldn’t pin it down to more than that.

As Jayne walked with him to the door of her sitting room, she glanced up with concern on her face.

‘Don’t worry about it.’ He touched her cheek, just once. It was all he would allow himself—one touch before he said goodnight, stepped out into the hallway and listened for her to lock the door behind him.

Alex had told Jayne not to worry but, truthfully, this had made him feel more restless inside than ever. He was…disappointed. He’d wanted to stay talking to Jayne, to soak up her concern for him. He’d wanted to kiss her again, and to…more than kiss her. Oh, he knew none of that would make any difference to his lack of answers from tonight’s meeting, but he’d wanted it anyway.

Alex wasn’t comfortable with the knowledge of that want. He couldn’t think right now about the right or wrong of trying to pursue this with Jayne. The attraction seemed to

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