The Reluctant Surrender by Penny Jordan

Author:Penny Jordan [Jordan, Penny]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2012-01-24T23:52:42+00:00

Giselle’s heart was thudding heavily into her ribs. She was still in shock from learning that she was going to have to accompany Saul on a field trip to Kovoca—a trip she couldn’t refuse to go on, since it was quite obviously part and parcel of her work and objecting was out of the question. It would make her look unprofessional and, worse, might lead to Saul guessing that…Guessing what? That she was afraid of being on her own with him because of the way he’d made her feel when he’d kissed her? She couldn’t put herself in that position. And she wasn’t going to.

Instead she was going to focus on being completely professional. She looked down at her bed and the clothes she had laid out on it. Field trips in her experience usually called for outdoor clothes, which meant jeans, and since she knew from the surveyors’ reports that the island’s terrain was rugged in places she’d need a pair of sensible shoes.

Moira had warned her, though, that Saul was combining the trip to the island with a visit to his cousin the Grand Duke of Arezzio on what Moira had described vaguely as ‘family business’. Giselle looked at her watch. Nearly three o’clock. Moira had said that Saul would pick her up at three-thirty, prior to driving them both to Luton for their flight.

She looked down at the bed again, checking to make sure she’d laid out everything she’d need. Jeans, her two new white tee shirts, undies, sensible shoes—and socks for them—and she would travel in her Joseph work suit and one of her white shirts.

She’d taken the precaution of checking online once she’d got home just to see what the weather would be like in both Kovoca and Arezzio at this time of the year, guessing correctly that it would be warmer than London.

Ten past three. She’d better hurry. The only case she had was the small one she used when she went north for a few days to see her great-aunt.

She had almost finished packing when the doorbell rang. The undies she was holding slipped from her grasp as her heartbeat accelerated. What was she so nervous for? Or was it excitement she was feeling and not nervousness?

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