The Right Kind Of Man by Jessica Hart

Author:Jessica Hart
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9781459277120
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2012-04-21T06:52:26.309000+00:00

CHAPTER SIX

‘HAVE you got anything planned with Charles this week?’

Skye looked up warily from her word processor as Lorimer came into her office one Wednesday. Over the last two weeks, she had schooled herself to appear cool and unconcerned, but she still couldn’t prevent the jump of her heart whenever he appeared. Lorimer himself had made no reference to the kisses they had shared and behaved so exactly as he had done before that sometimes Skye wondered if she had imagined it. Once or twice, she caught him watching her unawares, but his expression was always inscrutable and she could only hope that her own betrayed nothing of the memories that still tormented her.

The atmosphere between them was strained and snappy, much as it always had been, and as it became obvious that Lorimer was not going to mention the kiss Skye gradually relaxed. She was still careful not to touch him, but she deliberately gave herself no time to think, and remember. At work, she dragged Sheila out to lunch or bullied the others into going out in the evenings, and the rest of the time galvanised Vanessa and her friends into a whirlwind of activity. Vanessa complained that she was exhausted, but Skye’s inexhaustible energy was fuelled by a dogged determination not to let Lorimer guess for one minute that she had given his kisses another thought.

‘What if I have?’ she asked suspiciously now. She hadn’t heard a word from Charles since that fateful night, but she didn’t want Lorimer to know that.

‘You’ll have to cancel, if you have,’ he said brusquely. ‘You’re coming down to Galloway with me tomorrow and we’ll be staying there until the weekend.’

‘Thanks for the notice!’

Lorimer scowled at her sarcasm. ‘In case you hadn’t noticed, this is an office, not a dating agency. I can’t make all my arrangements to suit you.’ He dropped a file into her in tray. ‘We’ll stay at the Kielven Inn; give them a ring and let them know we’ll be arriving tomorrow afternoon.’

‘What if they’re full?’

‘At the end of the November? We’ll have the place to ourselves. I stay there often, anyway, so there won’t be a problem. Now, we’ve been invited to lunch with the Buchanans on the way down. They own the house I want to turn into the hotel at the heart of the new complex, and I’ve finally managed to talk them into renegotiating after the fiasco with the English investors. Nothing’s been finally agreed, though, so it’s vital that you give the right impression of the company. That means you’re to keep quiet, behave yourself and for God’s sake try and look a little more businesslike and a little less like a liquorice allsort!’ He averted his eyes from her boldly patterned jumper and striped leggings. ‘I’ll pick you up at nine o’clock tomorrow morning. Please be ready and waiting outside your flat, as I’ve no intention of finding somewhere to park at that time of morning and climbing up four flights of stairs to find out what’s happened to you.

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