Wedding-Night Baby by Kim Lawrence

Author:Kim Lawrence
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Harlequin Treasury
Published: 2011-05-27T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

‘THEY APPEAR TO know you here,’ Georgina observed, after Callum had ordered the wine without consulting her. At least he hadn’t interrupted as she’d given her order; she ought to be grateful that at least his appalling take-charge style didn’t extend that far. She glanced at her starter and smiled faintly at the waiter, who silently withdrew.

‘I’m staying here.’

The knowledge that he had a room just a lift-ride away made her neck ache even more than it already did; her muscles were twisted in tortured knots of tension. Heat scalded the back of her eyes as she briefly let her mind run over a scenario where Callum led her back to his room. The graphic images didn’t end there! With a horrified start she halted her wayward imagination.

‘You can drink it,’ he said, nodding at her untouched wine. ‘I’m not trying to get you drunk. You fall asleep, I seem to remember.’

Recalled from her abstraction, she gave him a glare of dislike. ‘You really enjoy reminding me of that, don’t you?’ Self-disgust shone in her eyes as she looked at him.

‘Are you always so tough on yourself?’

‘I’ll leave that to you,’ she responded, surprised by his question.

‘I won’t make any allowances for you just because of our personal relationship,’ he conceded.

‘We don’t have a relationship,’ she retorted, twisting her napkin in her lap, her fingers trembling slightly.

‘Has it thrown your calculations, actually wanting to sleep with me?’

She glared at his superbly confident features with simmering resentment. ‘You really do think you’re irresistible, don’t you?’ she breathed incredulously. ‘It borders on the pathetic,’ she added scornfully.

‘At least you made... what was he called?... Alex jealous. Wasn’t that what you set out to do?’ Callum asked with the sort of smug superiority that made her teeth clamp hard on her lower lip. ‘If we’re talking pathetic...’

‘I wasn’t prepared to pay that price.’

‘You seemed to enjoy paying the price at the time,’ he observed, with a reminiscent look that sent hot colour flooding into her cheeks. ‘Don’t take the moral high ground with me, Georgina; you’re as susceptible to the same appetites as the rest of us.’

‘I thought you wanted a report,’ she snapped. The petulant sound in her voice made her wince.

‘I’m listening,’ he said shortly. Leaning back in his chair, he levelled his disconcerting, unblinking stare directly at her.

He did listen, interrupting only to ask a few pertinent questions. ‘You’ve been a busy little bee, haven’t you?’ he said when she’d finished.

‘Denigrating and patronising are two terms which immediately spring to mind,’ she observed, stabbing her asparagus-flavoured mousse with unwarranted force. She speared a prawn and bit into it viciously. She’d not just done well, she’d achieved miracles, and pacified several ruffled male egos into the bargain.

Amazingly he laughed. ‘I’m impressed. Is that better?’ The cleft that bisected his square chin deepened as he grinned.

‘Much better,’ she agreed huskily. He did have the most extraordinarily attractive laugh, she thought with a hint of wistfulness. ‘I thought you were hungry; you haven’t touched anything.

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