The Earl of London by Louise Bay

Author:Louise Bay [Bay, Louise]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781910747568
Publisher: Louise Bay
Published: 2018-08-24T18:00:00+00:00

Twenty-One

Logan

Darcy Westbury was irritating the shit out of me—even her absence got under my skin. In fact, it was exactly her absence that had me short-tempered and foul-mouthed. I slammed down the phone, cutting off one of my IT guys who was trying to explain why I hadn’t had access to the internet for the last hour. I was pretty sure that if I hadn’t been his top priority before, I certainly was now.

But the internet wasn’t the problem, or at least not the only problem. Darcy had been ignoring my messages, avoiding my calls and generally pissing me off since I’d last seen her five bloody days ago.

Our evening had been incredible, the sex better than I could have imagined. And I thought she’d felt the same. Everything had worked between us. I’d confessed things I’d never told anyone and she’d been open and sweet. The next day I’d left her, knowing I should walk away—but in just a few hours, my resolve had disappeared, and I knew I had to have her again. Despite myself, I’d suggested another date, but had no response. For the first time in my life, I wanted more from a woman than she wanted from me.

That was bad enough.

But the fact that she didn’t even have the decency to respond to say no was frustrating the hell out of me.

“What?” I snapped in response to a knock at my office door.

“I can come back later if it’s a bad time,” my head of development said as he poked his head around my door.

“Come in, Malcolm.” I should have caught up with him days ago—I needed a way forward after the planning setback for Manor House Club. “I hope you’ve come armed with solutions.”

He took a seat on the other side of my desk. “I need to know if you want to pursue a plan B while we wait for the planning appeal.”

I glanced up. “What plan B and what planning appeal?”

“We lodged an appeal as soon as the decision came in from the Parish Council.”

“Why didn’t I know about this?”

“I spoke to the lawyers—it was their recommended course of action. We appealed the Friday after the decision.”

I sighed. No wonder Darcy hadn’t returned my calls. “You should have spoken to me about that.”

“You’re never interested in this kind of detail.”

“Yeah, well, this is different. For one thing, it’s the first business I’m building from scratch, but more importantly, these people are my neighbors. My grandmother’s friends. I need a heads-up before you start making decisions like that.” At least now I understood why Darcy had been such a pain in my arse since our date. I just had to figure out how to fix it.

What kind of hold did this woman have over me?

“I’ll keep you better briefed in the future. Do you want me to go through possible plan B scenarios?”

I checked my watch. “You have ten minutes.”

Malcolm produced a presentation with three worked-out alternative solutions to pursuing planning permission. The first was to abandon the project and invest in a similar business which was looking for funding.

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