The Party Starts at Midnight by Lucy King

Author:Lucy King
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2014-08-14T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TEN

SO FAR, THOUGHT ABBY, smiling up at the waiter who was placing her starter of smoked salmon in front of her, so good. The evening was absolutely going as well as it could given the circumstances.

Admittedly it had been touch and go for a while at the beginning. She’d walked through the door and spotted Leo frowning down at the table, clearly deep in thought and looking tired and dishevelled but nevertheless so gorgeous that for a second she’d gone a bit dizzy.

For a moment she’d wished she’d rung him up and told him she couldn’t make it. Then she’d contemplated turning around and leaving because suggesting they meet up had been reckless and foolish and she still had the smidgeon of a chance to rectify that.

But then he’d seen her and it had been way too late to back out. So she’d got a grip and told herself that her reaction was simply down to the initial shock of seeing him after so long. That she’d be fine once she’d got over it, and they’d got down to business.

Things had taken a slight turn for the worse when he’d kissed her cheek and she’d nearly passed out with the need to kiss him back, only properly. She’d looked up at him and had had the almost overwhelming urge to stroke away the lines of tiredness from his face and tell him that she’d missed him. But she’d got over that quickly enough.

By taking an unnecessarily long time to sit down and faff around with her handbag she’d more or less managed to haul herself under control, and now much to her surprise—and relief—she was enjoying herself.

Up until now they hadn’t really engaged much in the way of general conversation, and so now she was finding it, well, kind of nice to be able to talk normally, without tension and without subtext.

As they chatted about everything from work to films to books, she discovered he was interesting. Dryly amusing and probably unintentionally entertaining.

Best of all, though, he was once again nothing more than a client, and therefore everything was absolutely back on track.

* * *

If he’d known what torture dinner was going to be Leo would have suggested meeting Abby somewhere else entirely. Like a supermarket. A car park. His office. Hers. Anywhere that wasn’t softly lit and encouraged seduction.

He’d known that after the long flight he’d be hungry for good food and he’d assumed a restaurant would be safe enough, but it wasn’t because at no point had he taken into consideration the fact that once the food arrived he’d be unable to resist the temptation to watch her. As she ate, as she drank, as she talked and as she moved.

He couldn’t help it. She was so expressive, her movements so fluid and graceful as she talked about the events she’d organised and how, by way of a recommendation, she’d come to work for them.

And then there was the way she’d sighed over the food.

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