Untameable Rogue by Kelly Hunter

Author:Kelly Hunter [Hunter, Kelly]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2010-12-22T23:00:00+00:00

Madeline slept fitfully, rose early, and found herself at work by seven. Her personal office staff didn’t work weekends, and truth being told Madeline had no real need to be there other than to reassure herself that the security she craved still existed and that she had full control of it.

Better this than lazing in bed and recalling what it was like to surrender herself into the arms of a passionate warrior. A crusader who stared death in the face every time he took a job. A lover who surrendered to pleasure with an intensity that reeked of no tomorrows.

Better to bury herself in work than contemplate a body replete.

Far wiser to forget all about Luke Bennett’s hungry lovemaking than to acknowledge—with the dismay of a junkie who already knew after only one hit—that life had just changed irrevocably.

When her office phone rang at five minutes past nine, Madeline stared at it for at least half a dozen rings before finally picking up and speaking her name.

The pregnant silence on the other end of the phone wasn’t exactly encouraging. ‘Hello?’

‘Mrs Delacourte?’ said a soft female voice. ‘My name’s Jianne Xang.’

Oh.

‘You went to my aunt and uncle’s gallery presentation last night. With Luke Bennett.’

‘Yes,’ said Madeline. ‘Yes, I know.’ God help her.

‘I was hoping I could get a contact number for him from you.’

Oh. ‘I have a number for him on my mobile if you’d care to wait while I retrieve it.’ Madeline didn’t know what to say of what she knew of Ji’s relationship with the Bennetts. Which admittedly wasn’t much. ‘Another way to contact him would be to call his brother’s dojo. That’s where he’s staying. At Jake’s. You could try calling him there?’

Awkward silence.

‘Hang on, I’ll grab my mobile.’

‘Shi shi ni,’ said Jianne. A polite thank you.

Madeline gave the woman Luke’s number.

Jianne thanked her again, in English this time, and hung up.

Madeline took one look at the Delacourte apartment project filing cabinet full of plans that might never see the light of day and promptly put her elbows to the desk and her hands to her face. Surely her role in the Jake and Jianne Xang saga had come to an end, hadn’t it? Contact had been established between representatives of the two families. Messages had been sent. Hundred-million-dollar deals had been blown. What more could they possibly want from her?

Apart from a phone number.

The phone rang again. Madeline groaned. If Jianne Xang wanted the dojo number she could have that too. Maybe Jake would thank her one day. Maybe Ji and Jake would get back together, Bruce Yi would deign to do business with her, Delacourte would start to grow again, and Luke would stop disarming weaponry for a living.

And maybe she was dreaming.

‘Your housekeeper gave me your work number. I think I’m growing on her.’ Luke’s voice on the other end of the phone line, sparking a head full of memories of last night in his company. Before the elevator, and in it. After the elevator, and the way they’d parted.

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