Taming the Last St Claire by Carole Mortimer

Author:Carole Mortimer [Mortimer, Carole]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 978-1-4089-2542-3
Publisher: Harlequin Mills & Boon Ltd
Published: 2011-03-26T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHT

‘OKAY, so you were proved right. Attempting to make love in a bathroom wasn’t the most sensible thing I’ve ever thought of doing!’

Gideon paced Joey’s office impatiently fifteen minutes later as she sat looking at him guardedly from behind her desk. Both of them were now fully dressed, and the pallor of her cheeks told him exactly how upset she still was.

Was is embarrassment at the depth of the intimacy they had shared earlier? Or disappointment because that intimacy had been interrupted? Gideon wasn’t sure.

He did know that they had both reacted like guilty teenagers when May Randall knocked on the bathroom door. Joey’s face had been stricken as she’d stood up to turn her back on him, quickly dressing in her cream lace bra and silk blouse. Gideon hadn’t been much better as he’d forced his still aching erection back inside his boxers and zipped up his trousers. Tersely, he had assured May that he was fine, and would join her in her office in a few minutes, before pulling his shirt on and fastening the buttons with hands that had shaken slightly.

No, it certainly hadn’t been Gideon’s finest hour.

As he had just told Joey it hadn’t been his most sensible one, either. Sadly, his usual cool sensibility had gone out of the window the moment she had come to work in the adjoining office!

‘Will you please say something, Joey?’ he pleaded now, at her continued uncomfortable silence.

Maybe she would break her silence if she could think of something to say. If she wasn’t still so totally shocked by her own behaviour.

Ideally she needed to say something dismissive and sophisticated. But, as she didn’t feel in the least dismissive or sophisticated at the moment, she had no idea what she could say without sounding ridiculously gauche and inexperienced.

Just looking at Gideon now, remembering the depth of the intimacy between them earlier, was enough to make her want to crawl away somewhere and hide. At least until she stopped feeling as if she might die from embarrassment every time she so much as looked at him. Which would be never.

Maybe the best thing was to just avoid the subject altogether. ‘Have you had chance yet to look at that security disk?’

Gideon stopped his pacing to stare across the desk at her incredulously. ‘Is that the best you can do?’

‘I can see no benefit to either of us in talking about what just happened.’ Especially as she was still in shock because of it!

Neither did he. Until, that was, Joey expressed her own reluctance to talk about it.

Just being near this woman made him behave recklessly, impulsively, illogically. Something he never, ever did—in any situation. Hearing her dismiss that behaviour as if it were of absolutely no consequence was enough to make him want to shake her!

He glowered down at her from the other side of the desk. ‘How about we discuss a time when we can finish what we started?’

Green eyes met his briefly before Joey looked quickly away again.

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