Bound Together by a Baby by Penny Jordan

Author:Penny Jordan [Jordan, Penny]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781488032141
Publisher: Harlequin Presents
Published: 1989-08-25T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIX

TENSELY Kate studied the presentation in front of her; she had been through it so many times before, she suspected that she was no longer objective enough to make any useful criticism of it, but nervous energy drove her on, refusing to allow her to relax and let her body recoup itself as she knew she ought.

Tonight she was having dinner with James. By the end of the week the entire future of her young company would be decided. So much hung on James’s decision. She had other clients, of course, but none of them were of the financial standing of James.

With James as her client, she would automatically be moving up the status ladder; she would attract larger and wealthier clients; she would be able to expand, to allow herself to relax a little. Success in obtaining James’s business meant security for Michael and herself.

She knew her presentation was good. The chain of supermarkets was only a very small part of James’s empire, but he had tacitly indicated that success with the supermarkets would lead to the chosen PR company getting the rest of his business. Yes, she knew her presentation was good, but what she didn’t know was the strength of her rivals’ presentations.

If only Camilla was here. She needed the boost of being able to talk to someone who understood her and who understood her business, but when she had rung her home this morning, she had learned that her father-in-law had suffered a second heart attack and that Camilla was continuing to stay with her mother-in-law.

She put the presentation away carefully with a faint sigh. Given free choice, she would have preferred to discuss her suggestions either here in her own office or in James’s.

The idea of having dinner alone with him in his flat did not appeal to her. She knew his reputation, but she felt reasonably sure that she had already convinced him that she was not in the market for a one-night stand or even an affair.

And it was true, as he had pointed out to her when she had originally expressed dislike of his suggested venue, that they would be able to discuss and study her presentation far more easily in the comfort of his flat than in some restaurant.

She had planned to leave the office early, but a sudden rash of telephone calls delayed her, and it was gone six when she eventually hurried breathlessly up to her front door.

By rights she ought to have taken a cab rather than use the underground, but the long years of rigorous self-denial after she had left the children’s home had left their mark, and, while she wasn’t mean, she was very careful about what she spent on herself.

From the sounds reaching her from upstairs, Rick was obviously giving Michael his bath. Discarding her coat and gloves in her own room, Kate hurried through to the nursery.

Rick had put the bath on the floor on a large towel rather than use its stand.

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