The Irresistible Tycoon by Helen Brooks

Author:Helen Brooks [Brooks, Helen]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Sex in the workplace, Man-woman relationships, Single mothers, Contemporary, Fiction, Romance, Adult, General, Secretaries, Love stories
ISBN: 9780373122813
Publisher: Harlequin Books
Published: 2002-10-15T07:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIX

RIGHT up until the moment Kim found herself on Maggie’s doorstep, asking her friend if she could call round later to babysit, Kim would have sworn she had no intention of keeping her date with Lucas.

She had told him so several times throughout the course of what had been, for Kim, a particularly trying day, but it had been like talking to a brick wall. And she just didn’t know how to deal with such intractability, Kim admitted silently to herself on the drive home from Maggie’s.

In the two years since Graham had died she had had to freeze several advances from hopeful suitors, but it had been easy. A polite thank you but no thank you, a severe look if they’d needed further persuasion and that had been that. But what had worked admirably with the manager at the local supermarket, an old university friend of Graham’s and one or two hopeful admirers from clients of Curtis & Brackley had not cut any ice with Lucas Kane.

She had tried to keep everything on a strictly businesslike basis that day, but Lucas had appeared to find her efforts amusing rather than anything else, Kim reflected irritably as she fixed Melody’s tea.

But she would spell it out for him tonight, in letters a mile high if necessary, she told herself grimly. She was not going to start a relationship with anyone in the forseeable future, least of all Lucas Kane. Her priority in life was Melody—first and foremost. She didn’t want or need anyone else.

Maggie arrived early but Kim had known she would. She hadn’t been able to say anything more than that she needed her friend to babysit for eight o’clock when she had called by on her way home from collecting Melody, conscious of small ears twitching, but when Maggie had asked—naturally enough—where Kim was going and with whom, and she had mentioned Lucas Kane, Maggie’s eyes had nearly popped out of her head.

Melody was tucked up in bed waiting for Maggie to arrive and read her a story, and after Maggie had called up to say she wouldn’t be a minute or two, she had taken Kim’s arm in a powerful grip and whisked her into the little sitting room.

‘Well?’ Maggie’s nice homely face was agog. ‘What gives with the tycoon?’

‘Lucas, you mean?’

‘You have more than one fabulously rich and gorgeous man asking you out?’

‘He’s not gorgeous.’ It was too quick and they both knew it, and as Kim watched Maggie’s eyes narrow speculatively she said more carefully, ‘I mean he’s just my boss, that’s all.’

‘And he’s taking you out to dinner as what? A little treat for one of his employees?’ Maggie asked a trifle sarcastically. ‘Come on, Kim, this is Maggie, remember? So, I ask you again, what gives?’

‘Oh, Maggie.’ It was a hushed wail. ‘It’s all such a mess.’ She told Maggie all of it and at the end Maggie nodded sagely, like a wise little ginger owl.

‘I knew you’d been on edge these

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