The Executive's Secret: A Secret Billionaire Romance by Kimberley Montpetit

Author:Kimberley Montpetit [Montpetit, Kimberley]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Spellbound Books
Published: 2017-07-17T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter 13

The following Thursday was a dark and stormy night and Rossi’s was half empty. Patrons examined the windows, predicting the first snow of the season. The venetian blinds were half closed and the muted lights of the interior gave a soft glow, belying the wind and rain blowing through downtown.

Kira mechanically went through the motions of her job while thoughts raged through her mind about the previous Friday night.

Caleb had stolen her great-grandmother’s necklace. How dare he? The nerve. And yet, he didn’t know it was an antique heirloom. He’d tried to give it back. Intended to return it, but fear had overcome his nerve to admit what he’d done. And life had intervened to prevent him from finding her.

For hours, she wrote up tickets, took orders, delivered dinner plates, and made polite small talk, but occasionally Jan would shoot her looks of consternation, brow rising in question. Kira just shook her head and kept on walking.

Caleb had kept the necklace in a slip of tissue in a secret pocket of his wallet all these years. He’d preserved it. The necklace looked exactly as she remembered it. In fact, he’d taken the time and expense to replace the broken clasp and it matched the rest of the necklace’s strand of chain perfectly.

Each morning Kira put it on, and marveled that it was back. It wasn’t lost for good as she’d feared all these years. In some ways, it was like a miracle. She’d stare into the bathroom mirror with an overwhelming sense of relief.

“That’s a gorgeous necklace,” a woman’s voice said, interrupting her thoughts.

Kira glanced down at an older couple she was serving prime rib platters to. She set the au jus on the table, refilled their water glasses and made sure they still had plenty of red wine. “Thank you,” she said.

“I’ve been noticing how you keep touching it.”

“Do I?” Kira gave a self-conscious laugh.

“Is it a gift from someone special?” the woman asked, a twinkle in her eyes. Her frosted white hair glowed under the candlelight on the table. Her husband was busy slicing up his beef, but watched his wife and Kira with deep brown eyes folded into wrinkles.

“Yes, it was a gift from my grandmother before she died. It belonged to her mother.”

“I thought you were going to tell me it came from a handsome admirer.”

That was ironic, considering what had happened to it the last decade. “Actually,” Kira admitted. “It was lost for a long time and recently found.”

The customer gave a nod. “That explains why your hand keeps going to it.”

“I’m a little shocked it’s back, I guess,” Kira said ruefully. Caleb’s words from the night of the high school reunion reverberated in her mind. You were the most beautiful creature I’d ever seen.

The way he spoke reminded her of Jane Austen’s Mr. Bingley from Pride and Prejudice. Bingley was besotted with Elizabeth’s older sister but Jane was so reserved in returning any sign of her interest in him that she almost lost him forever.

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