Trial In The Sun by Kay Thorpe

Author:Kay Thorpe [Kay Thorpe]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781459268937
Publisher: Harlequin

CHAPTER SEVEN

AWAKE half the night, Lisa was dismayed to find it was already gone eight when she surfaced from sleep. She showered quickly, and donned a bikini under her light cotton tunic in anticipation of the swim to come, packing bra and briefs in a tote bag for later. Whatever the outcome, she was going to make the most of today, she thought, viewing her sun-bronzed face and sparkling eyes in the mirror.

She was on her way to the door when the telephone rang.

‘I overslept,’ she announced, taking it for granted who would be calling at this hour. ‘I’ll be there in a few minutes.’

‘You’d better be,’ came the tolerant reply. ‘Patience isn’t one of my virtues.’

Lisa laughed, warmed by the very sound of Brett’s voice. ‘You’ll have to practise more.’

‘Meaning you’re in the habit of keeping a man waiting?’

‘A woman’s prerogative,’ she rejoined lightly.

‘Not one I recognise, so take heed.’ His tone was mockserious. ‘You’ve got ten minutes.’

She might have made it if she hadn’t bumped into Gary Conway while taking a short cut through the lobby.

‘You’d no business going out on Seajade yesterday,’ he said without preamble. ‘She’s strictly for the use of paying guests.’

‘I was invited by a paying guest,’ Lisa responded.

‘That’s not the point. How do you think the rest of the staff feel about it?’

‘I haven’t asked them.’ She hesitated, recognising the validity in what he was saying yet at something of a loss as to what to do about it. ‘Brett didn’t seem to object,’ was all she could come up with.

‘You think you’ve got both him and Hanson wrapped round your little finger, don’t you?’ he snapped. ‘I dare say you might have in Hanson’s case, but you can forget any hopes you might be entertaining in Brett’s direction. He’s hardly likely to settle for little Miss Nobody!’

Lisa made every effort to retain an outer poise. ‘I’m sure you’re right. But then I don’t happen to consider myself a nobody.’

Gary’s colour deepened a little beneath his tan. When he spoke again it was in a more muted note. ‘I’m directly responsible for your being here, Lisa. I don’t want to see you get hurt.’

The sudden change of mood was disconcerting. Lisa hardly knew how to react. ‘If I’m what you think I am, why should it worry you?’ she said stiffly.

‘I’d have thought that pretty obvious.’ His tone was wry. ‘You gave me every reason to believe we had something going for us back in London. Why else would I have gone out on a limb to get you here? You’re good at what you do, sure, but I could have found someone closer to home.’

Lisa gazed at him unhappily. ‘If I did give that impression then it was totally unintentional. I liked you, of course. We seemed to get along so well. I just never imagined——’

‘It’s so much water under the bridge now,’ he interrupted with a return to brusqueness. ‘Brett’s going back to Boston again in the morning, in case you didn’t know.

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