The Reunion Lie by Lucy King

Author:Lucy King
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2013-07-08T16:00:00+00:00

NINE

Four weeks later, and Zoe could hardly believe that at one point she’d ever seriously contemplated not wanting to go out with Dan.

She must have been nuts, she thought, pushing through the revolving door at the entrance of her office and stepping out onto the street, because quite honestly these last few weeks had been some of the best of her life. Better than her A-level fortnight, better than her finals and better even than her viva, which was saying something.

And it wasn’t just the sex, although that was pretty high up there on her list of things to be pleased about. It was the conversation too, the exchange of personal information that neither of them had ever intended to do.

Tangled in sheets and basking in the aftermath of explosive passion, they’d conversationally meandered through topics such as siblings, parents and careers, and he hadn’t once tried to deflect her questions the way she’d half expected him to.

She’d told him about her love of numbers, the black and white nature of them and their fail-safe reliability, and he’d confessed to the thrill he still got when everything came together to create a great advertising campaign and his regret that he no longer had the time to do much on the creative side. She’d talked about her future plans for her business and he’d mentioned his intention to expand his operations by putting in an offer for the US agency that was up for sale.

She’d touched on her sister and her disaster of a marriage, and he’d told her about Celia and the devastating effect their parents’ divorce had had on her.

She’d told him more about her school years and he’d told her about the traumatic time he’d had during his, when his parents had been at the height of their arguing and things had been tough for a while.

The only thing they didn’t talk about was their relationship and where it was going, but that was fine with Zoe because she wasn’t sure where she wanted them to be going.

At the moment, for her at least, things were going just great. Dan didn’t seem to be put off either by her idiosyncrasies or her insecurities; on the contrary he seemed respectively fascinated by and supportive of them, and if she’d been more into the arts than the sciences she’d have said she was blossoming beneath all the attention he showered her with.

As agreed they’d kept a low profile, staying in more than they’d been out, and that suited Zoe just fine too because despite her self-assurances to the contrary she had been worrying a bit about the possibility of press intrusion and what might be said about her.

And yes, a couple of photos of them had popped up on the Internet and in the papers, with a comment or two that she didn’t much care for, but generally she didn’t warrant much interest. She wasn’t a glamorous actress, after all—and of course she’d Googled Jasmine Thomas even though

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