The Almost Wives Club: Kate by Nancy Warren

Author:Nancy Warren [Warren, Nancy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ambleside Publishing
Published: 2015-03-13T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

Nick looked at her, his expression completely serious. “A woman like you? If she’s in love she really is untouchable.”

She shook her head. “I almost kissed you. Out there on the street after you followed me out of the restaurant. I wanted to. You know I did.” That scene had tortured her. As angry as she was with Ted and his family and their horrible manipulative behavior, part of her fury was with herself.

He reached out and grabbed her hand. “You tried everything you could to get me to back away from you. I was pushy. I followed you out of that restaurant.”

“You begged me not to marry him.” She sipped her wine, needing the coolness in her throat. “And when I looked at you… It was like a movie moment.”

She could feel sparks of sensation where his fingers brushed against hers. “I wanted to kiss you so badly, it hurt.”

“But they were paying you to act like that.” And she’d fallen for the act.

“The first part, sure. I admit it. The last part, after we talked and I had the best dinner date I’ve ever had with a woman, that was all me.”

“You lied to them.”

“Lied to who?”

“Don’t play dumb. I heard you in the pool house, remember? You never mentioned the almost-kiss. You didn’t tell them that I took your business card.”

“That last part was between us. If I hadn’t…” He stopped, seeming at a loss for words. “If I hadn’t felt something for you, I would have let you leave. The second you walked out of the restaurant, my work for the Carnarvons was done. That’s what I reported. When I followed you out of the restaurant, that was for me. And being here with you now? Also for me.”

Once he’d admitted that, the evening improved. She stopped challenging him and simply enjoyed him. His funny stories about his business, his family, politics, books and movies. She found herself warming up to him as they talked like people on a date who enjoy each other’s company and have a pretty good idea how the night will end. Except that she had no plan to fall in bed with Nick. Sure, she could do it for revenge, but even as she’d enjoyed the fantasy, she knew she wouldn’t do it.

Ted, his family, her mother, collectively they’d betrayed her.

It didn’t follow that to get back at them she should betray herself.

She had standards she held for herself, standards she tried to live up to. Revenge sex was not something she wanted any part of.

But dinner with a hot guy who appealed to her? She was all over that.

He fed her off his plate, as he’d done the first time they met. This time, she fed him from her plate, too. To her amazement, she finished her entire plate of pasta, every hint of salad and even ate a couple bites of the cheesecake he ordered.

As they were leaving the restaurant, he said, “I want to show you something.”

“What?”

“I want to show you your file.

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