The Maverick Millionaire by Alison Roberts

Author:Alison Roberts
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2014-03-03T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER NINE

BY TACIT AGREEMENT, no direct mention was made about whatever was growing between Ellie and Jake. They both knew it was there and it was getting bigger every day. Perhaps trying to confine it to words would put it at risk of being caged and stunt its growth. Or maybe, by acknowledging it, it would somehow make it visible to others. This was theirs alone and it was too fragile and precious to put at risk.

Keeping it secret became a game that only added excitement to the stakes as they went about the jobs they were paid to do. Jake had to spend hours in makeup and costume, learning his lines and filming scene after scene as the movie inched towards the major finale of the shipwreck. Ellie treated people for minor and sometimes moderate injuries and illnesses. A cameraman needed a night in hospital to check that his chest pain wasn’t cardiac related. One of the catering crew got a nasty burn and someone else had an asthma attack that kept her busy for some time.

She’d never known that an ignition point of sexual tension could be stretched so far. One day led to another and then another where nothing happened other than an apparently innocent conversation over a meal, a lingering glance during the hours of a working day or, at best, a stolen moment of physical contact that was unlikely to arouse anyone’s suspicion—like the brush of hands as Jake passed her a plate of food or a drink.

The movie’s star didn’t really need the skills of a highly qualified paramedic to tend to the small scratch he received after a fight scene. It wasn’t very professional of Ellie either to spend quite so much time assessing and cleaning the insignificant wound but the time in the caravan set aside as an on-set clinic was as private as they’d been since that walk on the beach and that seemed so long ago it was getting shrouded in the same mists of fantasy that Ellie’s dreams were.

As she used a piece of gauze to dry the skin on Jake’s neck that she’d cleaned so thoroughly, the swiftness of his movement when he caught her wrist startled her.

‘I’m going mad,’ he said softly. ‘I need some time with you. Away from this crowd. Or any of those nosy reporters.’

Oh...my... Ellie knew exactly what would happen if they were really alone again. Like they had been in the beach house.

Did she want that, too?

Oh...yeah... With every fibre of her being.

Even if a part of her knew perfectly well it couldn’t last? That her world was so different from Jake’s she knew she could never fit in and that, if she allowed herself to go any further down this alluring path, it had to end in tears?

Her tears?

But it was so easy to blot out the future and live in the moment. To view this interlude in her life as a one-off and that, if this was the only time she would ever have to be with Jake, it would be worth it.

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