The Billionaire Baby Bombshell

Author:Paula Roe
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Silhouette
Published: 2010-05-30T16:00:00+00:00

Nine

The next morning Pam, Alex and Yelena gathered around the conference table in Yelena’s office.

Yelena had dressed conservatively in a pair of dark gray pants and a three-quarter-sleeved aqua silk shirt. She’d slicked her hair back, twisting it into an elaborate knot at the base of her neck. Yet every time Alex glanced at her, she might as well have been only wearing underwear the way her skin warmed. And then last night’s memories quickly followed, causing every intimate part to tingle and leaving her with an uncomfortable feeling of longing.

Ahh. Last night.

When they’d returned to Diamond Bay, she’d eased off the bike before he’d barely killed the engine and offered a quick “Thank you for dinner” before practically fleeing to her room without a backwards glance.

Thank you for dinner? How lame was she?

Now she pointedly looked away, trying to ignore the delicious curve of his bottom lip. Lips that had made her climax again and again…

More like, thank you for rocking my world.

“Do you want coffee, Yelena?”

She snapped her eyes up to Pam, who had a cup in hand.

“Thank you.” She accepted with a smile and took a scalding sip.

Quickly she replaced the cup and drew her notepad forward.

“So I thought we could talk about where we’re at with this campaign.” She paused, looking at each one in turn before continuing. “We all know the press’s direction these last few months. My aim is to turn that around.”

“How can you make everyone forget what’s been spread in the papers?” Alex asked, one eyebrow raised.

“I can’t. We need to focus on the good stuff—charity and community works that will counteract all that gossip.”

“You mean we need to suck up.”

“No,” she said firmly. “I don’t want to do anything you’d be uncomfortable with. For example, Pam—” she smiled at Alex’s mother “—I love your party idea. In fact, what do you think about calling it the ‘Sunset Party’? We could use the gorgeous Outback sunset colors as our signature—red, yellow, dark blue, black—” she refused to falter when her eyes briefly met Alex’s “—on decorations and invitations. I have an action plan we can work on together if you’d like.”

Pam’s face lit up. “I’d be happy to. I also thought we could hire out our boutique clothing for the locals who want to go all out. That way they can dress up but not think we’re handing out charity.”

Yelena smiled. “That’s a great idea. So looking further along—in the next few months it will be slow but steady. One thing I want to address is interviews. Television only, because I can get final edit approval and unlike print, there’s less room for misinterpretation. I have contacts with a few stations so I was going to push for A Current Affair and—”

“What would we say?” Alex interjected.

Yelena met his combative gaze but before she could answer he added, “Let me rephrase that—what do we need to say?”

Yelena leaned back in her chair. “The truth.”

His face turned dark. “The public has the truth.”

“Not in your own words, it doesn’t.

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