Summer Mahogany: Maine by Janet Dailey

Author:Janet Dailey [Dailey, Janet]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780759238305
Google: OviFbZ0VBOoC
Amazon: 0759238308
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: 1977-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

THE THREE-PIECE BLACK SUIT, consisting of a skirt, waistcoat and jacket, was very masculine in its design, but the ruffled jabot of her white blouse was distinctly feminine. The overall effect was crisply professional while it pointed out the raven sheen of her hair and the contrasting ocean green of her eyes.

With a smooth leather briefcase in her hand, Gina breezed into Justin's outer office. His secretary glanced up from her typewriter and smiled a greeting.

"Mr. Trent is expecting you. You may go right in, Miss Gaynes." The woman nodded toward the inner office door.

"Thank you." Not bothering to knock, Gina opened the door and walked into the plush, executive-designed office.

"Here's my learned attorney now," Justin declared, rising from the chair behind his desk to greet Gina. "She's the secret to my success. Everyone forgets the terms they were negotiating when they deal with her, Mr. Arneson."

The coolly businesslike smile had frozen on Gina's face as she was impaled on the rapier thrust of a pair of steel blue eyes. Seated in a leather, wing backed chair in front of the massive walnut desk was Rhyder. A movement near him finally attracted her stunned gaze.

A third man had been occupying the leather chair matching Rhyder's. The motion that had distracted her had been this man rising almost hypnotically to his feet at the sight of her.

Sandy hair was receding to lengthen his forehead. Dark-rimmed glasses nearly hid his hazel eyes. The years had matured the features of the boyish face inclined to freckles, but Gina recognized Pete instantly.

His recognition of her was slower, as if he were unable to believe it was possible. He glanced at Rhyder's hardening look for confirmation.

Gina recovered first, walking forward to extend a hand to an astonished Pete. "Hello, Mr. Arneson."

"It is you, Gina," he breathed. Disbelieving wonder gleamed through the lenses of his glasses as he held her hand for a long moment without shaking it. Abruptly his mind registered the formal way she had addressed him, coolly and politely. "I'm sorry, I…I should have said Mrs.

O—"

"Miss Gaynes," she supplied instantly, a husky tremor of nerves in her voice.

"Oh!" His sandy head jerked slightly. "You had it legally changed back after—"

"Yes, that's right," Gina interrupted a second time, and withdrew her hand from Pete's, paling at the darkening frown on Justin's handsome face.

"I think I missed something here." Irritation blocked Justin's attempt to make it a laughing declaration.

"It's—" Gina began, but this time she was the one interrupted by Rhyder.

"Gina has unfortunately chosen to keep secret from you, Justin, the fact that she's my wife." Sardonic amusement glittered in the startling blue of his eyes as he met the killing look she threw him.

"Ex-wife," she corrected sharply.

"You were married to him?" Justin's eyes narrowed at Gina. His surprise was equally divided between the fact that she had been married and that Rhyder had been her husband.

Feeling like the accused, Gina stood before the walnut desk, stiffly erect to conceal the inner trembling. Her heart was beating against her ribs like a trapped animal wanting to break free.

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