The Prospective Wife by Kim Lawrence

Author:Kim Lawrence [Lawrence, Kim]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781459200517
Google: 6aa__q3yumwC
Amazon: B004IATBTE
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2000-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

‘Client.’

She received the correction in much the spirit it had been offered and ground her teeth.

‘It didn’t occur to me that one individual client could be more labour-intensive than all of them put together!’ In her ignorance, she’d actually thought it would be a luxury not to have to worry about the next appointment. She had been looking forward to the prospect of giving her one patient the benefit of her undivided attention… She hadn’t reckoned on it being this undivided, though!

‘So you turned up here thinking you were on to a cushy number and I came here thinking I was going to get some peace and quiet. We were both wrong.’

‘I’m not afraid of hard work!’ she countered, bristling furiously at the implication she was work-shy.

‘Great!’ he cut back swiftly. ‘Stay, because I have it on good authority that I’m very hard work.’

‘Do you ever give up?’ she wondered wearily.

‘Not when I want something, and I want you…to rehabilitate me.’

Kat was uncomfortably aware of the dew of sweat that had broken out over her entire body. She had no doubt whatever that the pause had been deliberate and, like a fool, she obliged him by falling for the bait.

She cleared her dry throat. ‘I think that’s beyond my capabilities,’ she told him hoarsely. ‘I think your best bet is Drusilla coming up with a wife who can keep you in line.’

‘Are you applying for the job?’

Was he doing a little carrot-dangling, or did he just enjoy seeing her squirm?

Although she’d been displaying the intellectual capacity of a donkey just lately, the particular carrot he was mockingly dangling held no appeal. Matt Devlin might be the most attractive man she’d ever met, she might be filled with lustful cravings every time she thought about him, she might have fallen for him big-time—but she couldn’t think of many more alarming fates for a girl than to be married to him. For starters, he wouldn’t be faithful. Hadn’t he already made his opinion of fidelity quite clear? She resolutely ignored the tiny voice of dissent in some distant corner of her mind that inconveniently pointed out it might also be a wildly exciting fate.

‘I’ve no objection to being kept in line by the right woman,’ he announced. ‘Only I’d prefer to pick my own.’ He stood there oozing male virility, looking so much like the embodiment of all her dreams that she felt like weeping.

She coaxed her lips into a superior smile. ‘Men always think it was their idea,’ she sniffed.

‘You terrify me!’

Not half as much as you do me. ‘Don’t give up hope. I’m sure there’s a poor deluded soul somewhere out there for you.’ She made the possibility sound extremely remote.

Her venom didn’t seem to bother him. ‘So you think we all have a soul mate out there?’

His question took her aback. ‘Most people I know seem to think they have several,’ she responded, hiding her discomfort behind a caustic tongue. When she actually reviewed the alarming proportion of her

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