The Billionaire's Unexpected Roommate by Natalie Anderson

Author:Natalie Anderson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2013-10-15T00:00:00+00:00

EIGHT

The sated feeling never stayed. James, himself, never stayed. Not anywhere. Not even in bed. And Caitlin had cottoned on quick.

‘Do you never sit on a park bench? Never lie down in the grass?’ she teased as they walked through the Riverside Park after they’d been to the Guggenheim.

‘No. I like to keep busy.’ He fobbed her off with a smile.

‘You don’t know how to relax?’

‘I don’t like being bored.’ He didn’t like lying still. If he wasn’t kept busy, his brain started to replay things he preferred to forget.

‘No rest for the wicked?’ she joked.

‘That’s right,’ he answered with a smile, but was perfectly serious.

So for the next few days they stuck with the plan—gallery, park, place and no PDA. They took in an outdoor screening of a classic movie at Bryant Park, rode the Staten Island Ferry past the Statue of Liberty, walked down Wall Street, went to several indie, abstract, out there galleries in Chelsea. They visited memorials and museums, watched musicians in parks, stood by sculptures, went to another Broadway play, lunched in Little Italy, Chinatown, and ate yet more from street vendors, from urban markets, scoffed pancakes in small diners. They explored the flagship stores—from Apple to Lego to Tiffany’s—and the boutiques in the Meatpacking District, Tribeca. He kept them on the schedule—and he was liking it a hell of a lot more than he’d ever thought he would. They saw loads, talked incessantly, laughed often.

But on the fourth day, Caitlin rebelled.

‘My feet hurt,’ she explained.

She marched to a stand and bought herself an ice cream. ‘You want one?’

He shook his head. ‘Come on.’

‘No,’ Caitlin said bluntly. She was not walking another five miles around a park. It wasn’t that she was unfit or anything, but she just wanted to sit. It was a beautiful, sunny day. She wanted to watch the world go by and relax.

‘No?’

‘No.’ Passive resistance. That was the way. She took her ice cream and walked onto the spring lawn, selecting a spot far enough away from other people for some privacy—though she still planned to enforce the no PDA rule. It made life fun. ‘You can sit for ten minutes.’ She told him. ‘It’s not that hard.’

He rolled his eyes. ‘Ten.’

‘Maybe twenty—it’s a big ice cream.’ And she proceeded to lick it ve-e-ery slowly.

He muttered something unintelligible under his breath and flung himself down on the grass beside her. Caitlin ignored him, just kept on licking her ice cream. He turned his head to the side, she knew he was staring at her, willing her to look at him. She wasn’t going to. Ten minutes of doing nothing. How hard could it be?

She rested back on one hand, enjoying the warmth of the sun, the taste of the ice and the fascinating mix of people making the most of the park. So many people. So much to see. And someone so gorgeous to do it all with...

She glanced down to flash him a quick teasing smile but to her utter astonishment his eyes were shut.

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