The Billionaire Boss's Bride by Cathy Williams

Author:Cathy Williams [Williams, Cathy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2004-09-20T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIX

‘YOU’RE not still here!’ Curtis stopped in the middle of the office and frowned. He, himself, wouldn’t be here but for the fact that he had forgotten his mother’s Christmas present in his desk drawer.

Tessa looked up guiltily and flushed.

Yes, here she was. Still. At four-thirty in the afternoon when the office was deserted because everyone had either gone home already or else had joined the group who had chosen to have a last lunch and drink at the pub down the road before the company closed for the Christmas break.

‘I was just about to leave,’ she said, switching off her computer and shoving things into her drawers, tidying up her desk. ‘I wanted to finish all my work before the break.’

‘How industrious,’ Curtis said dryly, strolling over to where she was doing her best to ignore him by concentrating hard on flicking through the remnants of her filing tray. ‘I think what’s left can wait, don’t you?’ He reached out and circled her wrist with his fingers, stopping her in mid-tidy.

Tessa’s heart did that familiar, lurching thing and she could feel every nerve in her body tense as she stilled and looked at him, at the lazy, perceptive eyes boring into her.

The past seven weeks had been a trial by ordeal. Her ordeal. After that incident in the kitchen, he had stuck rigidly to her request that they forget about what had happened. She had not seen him for the week after, when he had been out of the office, taking his daughter on various excursions, although they had spoken on the telephone regularly, at least twice a day, purely on work matters. When he had come back, things had returned to normal, the only difference between them that she could see was that he was slightly more aloof than he had been.

They settled back into a familiar routine, although he no longer pried into her private life. She was left to assume that the ease with which he had forgotten what had taken place told its own telling story about how much the misplaced episode had affected him. Not much.

‘Why didn’t you come to the pub with us?’ he was asking her now. ‘Don’t tell me you preferred to stay here and make sure all your pencils were neatly arranged in your drawer before you left? I thought your excuse was that you had to go and do some last-minute Christmas shopping?’

He had released her hand and Tessa made good the opportunity to skirt round her desk and head towards the coat stand in the corner of the room. She could feel his eyes following her every movement.

‘I do have a bit of shopping to do, actually,’ she flung lightly over her shoulder as she put on her coat.

‘Oh, yes. What?’

‘This and that.’ She shrugged and then, wondering whether he was going to stay on, hovered for a while. ‘Are you going to be working now?’

‘Yes,’ Curtis informed her gravely. ‘I thought I might just get in a couple of hours’ work.

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