The Mill House by Susan Lewis

Author:Susan Lewis [Lewis, Susan]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction, General, Romance, contemporary romance
ISBN: 9780434011339
Google: -0jGukLEXY8C
Amazon: 0099502259
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2005-01-01T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

Josh was laughing quietly into the phone as Sylvia regaled him with some of the more lurid details of a party she'd just left in New York. Since she was talking about several people he knew, he was easily able to picture the scene she was describing, and even hear the outrage in one publisher's voice as he'd publicly insulted another.

Though it was still only seven in the morning, making it two a.m. in New York, they'd already been on the line for over half an hour, and since Dan was still asleep below decks there didn't seem to be any reason to ring off yet. Besides, at some point he intended to try again to persuade her that she really did have to stop calling.

Twenty minutes later they were still talking, laughing as they discussed how to handle an awkward situation that had arisen between Sylvia and her American agent. He didn't imagine she couldn't negotiate it without his input, but since she seemed to be valuing it, he saw no reason not to advise her. And from there the conversation

seemed to flow on quite naturally to various deals he'd pulled off in recent times, some of which she claimed to be impressed by, while she teased him playfully about others.

Ignoring the fact that someone had been trying to get through for some time, he continued to listen, occasionally chuckling as she applied her caustic wit to descriptions of people neither of them much cared for, and the various encounters she'd had with them, until finally she yawned sleepily and said, 'Well, as much as I'd love to spend the whole night lying here talking to you, my darling, I've got a breakfast meeting at eight, so I think it's time to ring off. I'll call again when I wake up.'

Though he started to protest about her calling later, he found himself lacking the words, since there had been nothing sexual, or even particularly intimate about this morning's call - they'd simply been chatting like old friends who had a lot in common, and who enjoyed each other's humour, so to make any objection to speaking again seemed inappropriate, and even petty.

After they'd said goodbye, he slipped back down through the hatch, and after looking in on Dan who was still fast asleep, he put on some coffee then checked his messages. He suspected there would be several, for the line had been almost constantly bleeping towards the end of his call. He wasn't surprised to find that one was from Julia, letting him know that she'd woken up early and just wanted to hear his voice, and another was from Marina asking him to get back to her the minute he could. There were also several more

calls with no messages, two easily identified from Julia, the others only coming up as private numbers.

Already feeling wretched for having to lie to Julia about whom he'd been speaking to for so long, and so early in the morning, he decided to put it off tor the moment, and call Marina first.

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