The Housekeeper's One-Night Baby (Mills & Boon Modern) by Sharon Kendrick

Author:Sharon Kendrick [Kendrick, Sharon]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Mills & Boon Modern
Published: 2023-07-31T23:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

NICCOLÒ DROPPED HIS briefcase on the floor more loudly than he intended, the sudden rush of air causing the roses in a nearby vase to shiver. With impatient fingers, he began to unbutton his jacket, throwing it down on a chair with his usual attention to sartorial detail forgotten. He’d had yet another frustrating day at the office for reasons which were as inexplicable as they were irritating—and it was all down to her.

Lizzie.

Lizzie Bailey.

A freckled face swam into his mind as it had been doing on occasions too numerous to count. Pale green eyes and glowing skin. A pair of soft, rosy lips crying out to be kissed. He shook his head, but the image refused to budge and he scowled. Total preoccupation with his unexpected houseguest was now his new normal and he didn’t like it. He didn’t like it one bit.

For days, he had uncharacteristically found himself glazing over during meetings at his company headquarters, in a way which had produced vague flutterings of surprise from his staff. Instead of focussing on the latest stratospheric profits of Macario Industries and finding new ways to increase them, which was what he was extremely good at—his attention had been dominated by one Lizzie Bailey.

He had tried too many times to analyse her allure—and this was the confusing thing, because he had dated women far more conventionally beautiful than her. But then, he’d never lived with a woman before and had perhaps underestimated the potency of proximity. He had deliberately placed her off limits, yet was discovering that the forbidden had a power all of its own. She was feisty and she was vulnerable—an undeniably distracting combination, made all the more affecting because he sensed it wasn’t contrived. And then there was her air of stubborn independence. Her reluctance to accept any of his considerable wealth, despite being as poor as a church mouse.

But there were other things about her which were equally perplexing. How come she was so uncannily good at reading his mood—sensing whether he wanted to talk at breakfast time, or remain silent? Was that rooted in her experience of working as a housekeeper? But she isn’t your employee, he reminded himself frustratedly. She was your lover—briefly—but not any more.

And wasn’t that something else which was driving him crazy? Those vivid memories of how good it had been between them?

A muscle began to work at his temple. He had tried to deny, ignore, dismiss and subdue his desire for her—but nothing seemed to work. Punishing early-morning sessions at the gym had proved useless. Long hours at his desk didn’t help. He felt as if he had temporarily ceded control to the tiny redhead, and since he was a man for whom control was key, this was disturbing. He’d even considered eradicating the pervasive memories of her curving body by taking another lover—although obviously, he would be very discreet about it. But although other women were always coming onto him and there was an abundance of suitable candidates from which to choose, he found the idea of having sex with anyone else abhorrent.

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