The Boss's Proposal by Cathy Williams

Author:Cathy Williams
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2001-07-13T21:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIX

VICKY made very sure that she was out of her office when Max returned to work after New York. She knew that he would be coming in to the office at nine-thirty because of the e-mail he’d sent her the previous day. Nevertheless, from the cowardly sanctuary of the Ladies, she could still feel her heart thumping at a mile a minute.

She would give him fifteen minutes, a never-ending stretch of time during which she pointlessly stared at her reflection in the mirror and attempted to look busy with a make-up compact, just in case someone else entered the large, plush cloakroom and wondered what small, red-haired Vicky Lockhart was doing there, her cheeks flushed with colour, her eyes over-bright. It was a relatively small, friendly company, and during the short space of time that she’d been working there she could say with reasonable accuracy that she was on nodding acquaintance with most of the staff. If anyone came upon her now, staring sightlessly in the mirror, hands shaking, lips dry and an expression of gut-wrenching dread on her face, they would rush her to the nearest hospital. Or, at any rate, the nearest Sanatorium. At the very least, they would ask lots of concerned, prying questions for which she had no answers.

She only knew that her mind had spent the past few days preoccupied with one thing and one thing only.

Or perhaps one person would be more to the point.

When she thought of Max Forbes, her brain seemed to close down completely, leaving her at the cruel whim of memories that made her body begin to ache.

She gripped the chrome tap and stared hard and purposefully into the sink, willing the onslaught of thoughts to go away, but it was no good.

The worst, most humiliating thought of all was the realisation that none of it would have happened if she had not invited him into her bedroom. True, she’d had more than her usual amount to drink, but she knew, inside herself, that blaming a few glasses of wine for what had happened between them would be an act of cowardice. The plain, unadorned truth was that she had felt relaxed enough with him in that restaurant to open up. She’d stopped putting up barriers and had succumbed to the power of his raw masculinity and the sexy charm that she’d fought desperately against from the very first minute she’d laid eyes on him.

She turned on the tap and rinsed her face with ice-cold water, but beneath the water she could still feel her cheeks burning. Not only had she proceeded to force the man into her room, or at least put him in a position where to say goodnight and leave would risk appearing rude, she’d then done the unthinkable.

Her body had been on fire. During the meal, she’d felt herself get more and more turned on every time his eyes fell on her. By the time they’d reached her bedroom, her imagination had been in full flow and she’d been in no mood to put the brakes on.

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