The Zombie Billionaire's Virgin Witch (Zombie Category Romance) by Joely Sue Burkhart

Author:Joely Sue Burkhart [Burkhart, Joely Sue]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Joely Sue Burkhart
Published: 2012-09-29T19:00:00+00:00

EIGHT

Her mentor had compared Mr. Michelopoulos to a bear, but Clare decided that wasn’t at all the right description for him. While the kitchen staff worked in a flurry about her to push out the evening’s dishes, he prowled through the restaurant like a sleek lion. Magnificent. Regal. And oh so deadly.

He’d been shaken enough after Helga’s demonstration to leave Clare alone for the rest of the afternoon. They were also too busy for chitchat during the evening rush. That didn’t stop him from pacing through her domain every once and awhile, his dark eyes gleaming with…

What, exactly? Which was the crux of her problem. She didn’t know him well enough to tell what he was thinking or feeling. He hid his emotions too well behind that familiar tycoon exterior. Did he still suspect foul play on her part, manipulating his emotions or his libido to accomplish her wicked plots? Worse, had he accepted the idea that for whatever bizarre reason, he might actually be attracted to her?

Because if the lion decided he was going to feast on her tender morsels, she was terribly afraid she’d leap right into his vicious jaws, no matter the consequences.

She sighed and patted her sweaty brow with a towel. That’s exactly why she dressed, talked, and acted like she did. She had to hide her true nature, even if she was fooling everybody but herself.

Even if I burn to find out exactly how Yiorgos makes love. Slow and long and tender? Or sweaty, hard, and fast?

Both.

Her cheeks heated and it wasn’t the ovens raising her body temperature.

The last of the dessert plates went out, leaving her a minute to catch her breath. Of course Michelopoulos just happened to prowl back through the kitchen, probably trying to scavenge a plate for himself. Lord help me if he finds out where I stashed the Death by Chocolate Cake.

“Why do you hide your body beneath such shapeless clothes?”

Heat scalded her cheeks and she spluttered. “That’s none of your business.”

“You said you thought you were chubby. Are you ashamed of what you look like?”

To keep herself busy and her body distracted, she buried her hands in the sink and began washing the last of the dirty pots. “Not at all,” she finally said. “I’m a kitchen witch and I love food. I’m never going to be a slender slip of a girl and I’m totally fine with that.”

“Then why hide?”

She wanted to blurt, I’m not hiding… But I am. Oh, I am. I must. “I’ve learned it’s much better to appear normal and innocuous to the world around me, Mr. Michelopoulos. Most people don’t even think wizards exist, let alone that I can do what I can with magic.”

“Ms. Kettlewich doesn’t hide.”

Clare let a grin quirk her lips. “Absolutely not. She’s wild, loud, and in your face.”

“You could be, too.”

She rinsed the pot and set it into the rack. When he picked it up and started to dry it, she nearly fell over with shock. “That’s not me, Mr.

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