Caribbean Escape with the Tycoon by Rosanna Battigelli

Author:Rosanna Battigelli
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2019-12-03T13:21:22+00:00

CHAPTER TEN

CHANELLE WANTED SOMETHING a little more dressy for Canada Night. The captain of Aquarius and some of the senior officers and staff would be greeting guests on Deck Five from eight to nine, and those who wished could have their professional photo taken with the captain during the last half hour. Not that she was interested in a photo...

Stop kidding yourself, an inner voice taunted. You may not be interested in meeting the captain of Aquarius or getting a photo, but there will most certainly be a certain Vance Kingston there to impress...

Did she want to impress him?

Maybe, a small voice admitted.

Something had happened between them up on the Sky Promenade. She wasn’t sure if it was the moment when she had looked across at him on the circular platform, and he had nodded for her to proceed, his eyes as calm and blue as the sky above them. Or when she had made it across the first ladder and had literally sunk into his arms. All she could hear against his chest was his heartbeat along with hers.

She had accomplished a feat she had never thought herself capable of. And she would have never done it without Vance’s encouragement. Every step of the way. His arms around her had given her such a wondrous feeling of support.

Or maybe something more...

She felt excited about the evening ahead. She was here on a cruise, and she intended to enjoy as much of it as she could.

Chanelle sifted through her dresses in the closet for something that might go with the Canada Night theme. She stopped when she came to a white cotton dress with splashes of red poppies. Well, they were as close as she could get to the red maple leaf on the Canadian flag. The dress was sleeveless, with a fitted bodice, snazzy red belt and skirt that flared from the waist, reaching to above her knees. And her new ruby earrings matched perfectly. As Chanelle swirled to look at herself in the mirror, she felt like a different person. A carefree, much younger person, without the preoccupations that had clung to her while at work.

Chanelle took a deep breath. She hadn’t made much time to go out in the evenings when she had been working. She had usually come home late, exhausted, with thoughts only of getting into a shower and pajamas. Had Parker ever even seen her dressed up like this?

The thought of Parker vanished as quickly as it had come. All she could picture in her mind was the expression she hoped to see on Vance’s face when he caught sight of her in this gorgeous dress... She swirled around, loving how the skirt swirled with her. The words of her horoscope came back to her:

Your inner world is transitioning and spinning you to a higher consciousness.

She smiled at herself in the mirror. She was spinning, all right.

And she liked how it felt.

Chanelle chose a black purse that matched the black centers of the poppies, slipped on black high-heeled sandals and headed to the Galaxy Café.

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