Billionaire Without a Past (Irresistible Russian Tycoons) by Carol Marinelli

Author:Carol Marinelli [Marinelli, Carol]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2016-04-19T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHT

RACHEL, ONCE HOME, wanted to curl up and die of embarrassment. She lay on her bed and cringed. Not only hadn’t she apologised to Nikolai, he had, thanks to Libby, found out that, till recently, she’d been sleeping with André.

Oh, she did not want to guess Nikolai’s opinion of her.

She had a bath in the hope of relaxing but that had stopped working ages ago.

She peeled off her shower cap and pulled on her robe. As she headed down the hall there was a knock at the door and though she thought about not answering it, she knew she’d have been seen through the glass.

It might be her mum, she thought with a weary sigh.

Instead it was Nikolai.

‘Libby forgot to give you the keys to the dance studio. I said it was no problem for me to drop them around.’

He held them out to her.

‘There’s also a list of lesson times.’

Rachel didn’t want to hear about keys and lesson times. ‘I’m sorry!’ Rachel said. She just blurted out the words she had been holding in all week. ‘I was a cow when you told me—’

‘It’s fine.’

‘No, no, it isn’t. I was going to ask Daniil for your number but then you were there.’

He granted her the smile she’d thought she would never see again but she couldn’t return it.

‘I’m so embarrassed,’ she admitted.

‘Why?’ Nikolai asked.

‘Because of...’ She glanced over his shoulder as if God might be behind him waiting to judge. ‘You know.’

‘You’re embarrassed about the charming André?’ he checked, and she nodded. ‘He’s the cheat, Rachel, there’s nothing there for you to be embarrassed about. So, are you going to let me in?’

‘Oh.’

She was surprised he was at her door, let alone that he wanted to come in. She stepped aside and he looked very out of place in her shabby hall but very nice too.

‘You wanted my phone number?’ he asked her, to clarify.

‘Yes.’ Rachel nodded. ‘Just to say sorry.’

‘So you weren’t hoping I’d ask you out again?’

‘No.’ She shook her head. ‘I thought you’d left for overseas.’

‘You’re quite sure you didn’t want me to take you out?’

‘Quite sure,’ she said. ‘Anyway, you leave a week on Monday.’

‘I thought you didn’t like deep relationships.’

‘I don’t,’ she agreed.

‘And what if I told you I had tickets to see Firebird tonight?’

‘Are you serious?’

‘Always.’

Just not so serious when he was with her.

‘How?’

Nikolai didn’t answer.

After leaving Daniil’s, he had intended to drive back to his yacht, get changed and go out.

He had felt lighter.

That his friends already knew had lifted his burden. He was looking forward now to Sev and Naomi getting back from their honeymoon, to catching up with old friends.

London was looking beautiful. The weather was warm, skirts were short and legs were long, and it was time to hit the town. He had some friends in London. Perhaps they could head back to the yacht and light up the night in his usual, wild style.

He hadn’t partied since he had been here and that was unusual for him.

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