Boardroom Hot-ShotsThe Greek Billionaire's Baby RevengeGetting Down To BusinessDream Job, Hot Boss! by Jennie Lucas

Author:Jennie Lucas [Lucas, Jennie/Blake, Ally/Grady, Robyn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781742902869
Publisher: Harlequin Enterprises, Australia Pty Ltd
Published: 2011-02-15T00:00:00+00:00

Two hours later Abbey and Flynn stood leaning their forearms on a bridge rail overlooking the Yarra River as decorative flames did their hourly dance, leaping high into the air from the waters outside the Crown Casino complex.

Abbey let out a sigh as the warmth from the latest burst of flame cooled on her cheeks.

‘What are you thinking?’ Flynn asked.

Abbey laughed. In the real world that was meant to be her line. If this was a real date. If she weren’t Clarissa Parrish’s uptight granddaughter and he weren’t Flynn Granger, the playboy of the western world.

‘You say you’ve read Chic Magazine,’ she said, grinning up at him.

‘I have, on occasion,’ he said, spinning to lean his back against the rail so he could see her better.

She breathed in deep through her nose and looked out towards Flinders Street train station slumbering along the other bank of the river. Better that than finding herself further lost in those hard planes, and that tilting smile, and those eyes.

‘Then you should know that’s the one thing you never ask on a date,’ she said. ‘Especially a first. Or it will definitely be the last.’

‘So are you suggesting that before I made that tiny faux pas, there was the possibility of more?’ he asked. She gave in and glanced his way in time to see him lift one perfect dark brown eyebrow.

‘Did I convince you, even a little?’

So she’d had a little too much white wine. So she’d laughed so hard during their main course her cheeks still hurt. So she’d actually been bowled over when from nowhere he’d pulled out a fluffy toy goldfish, the kind to be found in the aquarium gift shop, wrapped in a blue satin bow, and presented it to her. So she’d felt as if she were walking on air as Flynn had held her hand protectively in the crook of his arm as they’d ambled the length of Southbank to walk off dinner.

She still knew the best thing to do, the best thing for the column and for herself, was to not admit a lick of it. To say she was utterly unmoved. To say he’d tried to prove his point and failed and that the battle would continue.

But the truth was, he’d gone out of his way to try to show her how nice it felt to be on the receiving end of romance and gentlemanly behaviour, and instead of being unimpressed and indifferent she’d turned into a completely gooey female and fallen for it hook, line and sinker.

Falling, falling, falling, she thought, bending further over the rail to look down into the swirling black depths of the river.

‘Abbey,’ Flynn drawled, his voice low and intimate and so very close to her left ear she knew that she would only have to turn her head and lean towards him a tiny little bit …

But this was Flynn, a man she considered her new friend, an important ally, the one person who stood between her and Clarissa and the cold, homeless nights on the street, and he was asking her a straightforward question.

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