Susan Lewis by Last Resort

Author:Last Resort
Language: eng
Format: mobi, pdf
Published: 2012-01-12T15:08:03+00:00

Chapter 15

Getting away to Paris proved no problem. Marielle was only too ready to cover

- in fact she was insistent that Penny should stay away as long as she liked.

Both Penny and Christian laughed about that since she'd already told him how keen Marielle was to usurp her position. They caught a mid-morning flight from Nice airport, where Penny noticed that the name on his passport was Jacques Marchand. She teased him about it during the flight, making him recite his many aliases.

When they arrived in Paris just over an hour later it was to find the Delaneys"

counterparts waiting to drive them into the city. They stayed in a quaint, cosy little hotel not far from the Pompidou Centre and fought like crazy over who was going to pay for it.

T don't care if you're a multimillionaire,"

she shouted at him.

"You paid for everything all weekend, you even paid for the flights up here, so it's my turn now."

"But you don't get a turn,"

he said, laughing.

"No! Penny, put your purse away, you're'

Take it!"

she cried, thrusting a handful of 200-franc notes at him.

"Please!'

"No! Keep it. You never know when you might need it."

There was nothing Penny could do to persuade him, so in the end she gave up trying. Instead, while he was seeing the people he'd come here to see, she shopped

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and bought him some decent clothes.

"What is all this?"

he cried, holding up the shirts and trousers and jackets from Giorgio Armani.

"It's called style - something you're not big on/ she told him bluntly.

He gave a her a pained look, saying,

"But I live on the sea. I don't know about clothes for life ashore. Did I really look so terrible?"

Tes/ she answered, smiling at him.

"You looked like you'd been thrown together by a bankrupt charity. But now you're going to look devastating."

Which he did. The clothes fitted him well, since she'd taken some of his old ones along with her to match them for size. The only trouble was, now that she had spent so much money on him he was insisting he do the same for her.

Tou know what,"

she told him as they wandered, laden with parcels and carrier bags, into the Galeries Lafayettes.

"I feel a bit like Bonnie and Clyde doing this."

"Is that supposed to be funny?"

he remarked.

Tes, it was actually,"

she answered. T mean, don't you think so too? Us out here spending all your ill-gotten gains!'

"Shh,"

he said sharply.

No, that wasn't very tactful, Penny, she told herself, wishing she could bite out her tongue, until she saw him watching her from the corner of his eye and trying not to laugh.

"We've been invited to dinner with some friends of mine this evening/ he told her on the way back to the hotel.

"Would you like to go? Or would you prefer it was just the two of us?"

Penny put her head thoughtfully to one side.

"I don't know/ she said in the end. T'd like to meet your friends . .."

"But they aren't very interesting/ he finished for her,

"and personally I would prefer to have you all to myself.

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