The Perfect Proposal by Rhonda Nelson

Author:Rhonda Nelson
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781465877444
Publisher: Rhonda Nelson

Chapter Eight

Annie awakened Thursday morning to the sound of birds chattering outside her window. Well-rested and wearing a sleepy, pleasant smile, she stretched lazily and opened her eyes. Bright light spilled in through the lace curtains, bathing the room with dappled shadows. Getting the last word with Mitch last night had pleased her so much she’d gotten the best sleep she could recall in years. Reveling in her uncharacteristic good morning mood, Annie rolled over and checked the bedside clock…then froze.

9:42!

Annie shot up in bed and grabbed the clock for a closer look. But how could that be? she wondered. She’d set the alarm for six-thirty. The alarm was off, indicating that she’d either she’d never turned I on—and she distinctly remembered doing that—or she’d been sleeping so soundly that she’d awakened only enough to cut the alarm off and hadn’t reset it. Annie frowned. That wasn’t like her, but of course shed been doing lots of things lately that weren’t true to her character. Like kissing Mitch and falling in puddles of water. While naked.

Annie sighed over the first memory, winced at the latter, then put them both determinedly from her mind. Though her extended slumber wouldn’t cause her to miss their lunch appointment with Les, Annie still had some things that she wanted to take care of this morning. Like speaking to Liz, she thought, remembering Mitch’s phone call from dear ol’ John last night.

After she’d adjourned to her room the previous evening, Annie’d pulled out her laptop and sent an urgent e-mail to her own assistant for the duration of this silly contest. She’d asked Liz to do a little snooping around about whatever it was Mitch was so enthused over last night. Though she doubted his campaign would be better than hers—even though she didn’t have a firm concept per se—Annie had too much riding on it to leave anything to chance.

Annie’d never had a problem working up a few ideas and this case as certainly no exception. She had roughly six good, workable campaigns. Nevertheless, she knew none of her current thoughts would dazzle Les Peters. She bit her lip. And nothing short of dazzling would do for the flamboyant little cowboy.

She huffed a breath of exasperated air. And the way Mitch had been carrying on last night, she’d have though he’d come up with something better than a legendary stomach remedy jingle. Annie scowled. Since Annie had always made it a priority to know her competition, one of Liz’s first acts as her assistant had been to unearth some of Mitch’s previous campaigns from his college days when he’d still worked at Hightower.

Like every beginner, some of his ideas were horrible, but most showed definite promise. Grudgingly, Annie had to admit that, had Mitch stuck with Hightower, he’d definitely be a force to be reckoned with. It must have really hurt William when his protégé nephew left the company.

But whatever Mitch’s reason for taking a different path from his familial predecessors, the fact remained that he’d walked away and she’d stepped in.

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