Bronze: A Romantic Suspense Novel (Blackwood Elements Book 8) by Elise Noble

Author:Elise Noble [Noble, Elise]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Undercover Publishing Limited
Published: 2019-11-29T18:30:00+00:00

CHAPTER 12 - KYLIE

“DO YOU WANT the good news or the bad news?” Russell asked when I shuffled out of my bedroom at—what time was it? The monstrosity on the wall said six o’clock.

“Please, no more bad news.”

“Okay, the good news first. Emmy emailed. Remember Maury Devlin and Anton de Bellis?”

With all the horrors in Australia, Devlin and de Bellis had faded to the far recesses of my mind, but now they popped forward, front and centre. Devlin was an art dealer from Yonkers and a cog in the smuggling ring we’d helped to bust in Egypt. De Bellis was one of his buyers.

“Yes, I remember them.”

“They both got arrested yesterday. Dawn raids, one in New York and one in Switzerland. The pair of them are in jail, and the police are going through their art collections for stolen goods.”

Finally, some justice had been served, even if it wasn’t against Michael. “That’s great! So, uh, what’s the bad news?”

“Akeem somehow heard about it and sent this…” Russell reached over to the fridge and pulled out a bottle of pink champagne. “Apparently, it’s to help us celebrate.”

“What, he doesn’t think I got drunk enough yesterday?”

“I thought that might be your reaction.”

“I’m never touching alcohol again.”

“I thought that too, so I asked the chef to make us a nice dessert instead.” Russell grimaced slightly. “Which unfortunately turned out to be champagne mousse with sangria sorbet. How do you feel about cheese and biscuits?”

“I’m good with cheese and biscuits.”

And I was good with him showing me how to roast the beef and fry the mushrooms and wrap the whole lot in prosciutto and pastry to bake. Like yesterday with golf, he had a way of manhandling me around the kitchen, gently and with the lightest of touches. By the time the vegetables went in to roast, I needed to concertina myself into the ice bucket to cool off.

How was this man still single? When we first met, he mentioned that he’d split up with a girlfriend before he travelled to Egypt, and honestly, the woman must have lost her mind.

“I feel as though I should dress up for this dinner,” I said in an attempt to steer my dirty mind back to cleaner territory.

“Really? I was thinking the opposite. This won’t be ready for half an hour, and the pool’s right there. Want to cool off?”

More than he could ever know. I nodded before I’d fully thought the situation through, only for flames to lick up my insides when Russell pulled off his polo shirt and headed for the terrace. Oh, crap.

Don’t drool, Kylie. “I, uh, just need to change into my bathers.”

And maybe take a cold shower while I was at it. Someone up there hated me.

Hated me enough to send me back out to the swimming pool in a bikini and make me sit there for thirty minutes talking to a man who seemed genuinely interested in having a conversation as opposed to staring at my boobs.

Why? Why? Why?

Even when he

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