The Tycoon's Defiant Southern Belle by Elizabeth Lennox

Author:Elizabeth Lennox [Lennox, Elizabeth]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Aspose
Published: 2013-08-15T10:00:00+00:00

Chapter 7

Jade slipped through the aisles of the drugstore, picking up the items she needed as quickly as possible. She only needed a few items and was trying to hurry through the errand before anyone else saw her. She knew she looked a mess, but she was pulling herself together. It would just take a bit more time, at least for her skin to recover from her chocolate binge over the past three days.

It was all HIS fault, she thought as she dropped a new type of facial cleanser into her basket. If he had been here, she wouldn’t be depressed by his absence and she wouldn’t be eating all the chocolate her friends and neighbors had brought over.

She’d never been depressed when Dave had gone out of town. Why was she so irritable now with Angelo gone?

She’d had fruit and milk for breakfast this morning and she was starting to feel alive and normal. Her next issue was to simply avoid Angelo except when there was a business issue. She didn’t like herself when he was here and she definitely didn’t like him when he was gone. So therefore, she’d concluded, he was not good for her temperament. Avoiding him was the best plan of action.

She could do that, she told herself, trying to pick herself up from the doldrums. Today’s depression had nothing to do with the fact that she wasn’t going to see him. It was simply because she wasn’t eating properly and so she wasn’t getting good nutrients.

She glanced at her watch and realized she needed to speed up even more. There were several samples for his house coming in today and she wanted to be able to show them to Angelo once he came back. His assistant had phoned yesterday to say that he was behind schedule so she’d had an extra day to mope about. If he liked one of the samples, she’d need to hurry and order them because the one she thought would be perfect for the library flooring was going out of stock. She had no idea why, she thought as she grabbed her favorite shampoo, the ceramic floor tile was really interesting and different. She really hoped that Angelo would like it. Her second favorite was way down the list of desired items but she suspected that he would choose that one instead. It would work, she thought. But more importantly, she had to get that man’s preferences off of her mind. After the party last week and having ice cream with him earlier this week, she had to separate herself from the man. People were starting to talk.

She hated being the subject of rumors, but that was part of living in a small town. Everyone knew everyone else, at least by name or reputation if not by face.

It wasn’t going to matter, she told herself. Angelo was just a client. He meant nothing to her other than as a very good client that she wanted to impress. At least that’s what she was trying to think.

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