Counterfeit Love by Julie Fison

Author:Julie Fison
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ebook
Publisher: Hardie Grant Egmont
Published: 2014-05-22T16:00:00+00:00

‘Didn’t expect to see you here.’ Lucy glared at Byron from across the terrace.

Byron got to his feet, a thin layer of sweat gathering on his brow. He was tempted to do a running jump into the harbour and take his chances with cholera rather than face Lucy at the moment. He’d been avoiding her texts all day, not sure how to respond to them. He certainly hadn’t expected to see her in person.

‘Lucy, hey. What a coincidence. You wanted to meet up, and … here we are.’ His mind raced through a list of possible explanations for his presence at the yacht club in a Hound Dog shirt. The truth not being one of them. ‘Didn’t expect to see you here, either. A little out of your patch, aren’t you? I thought you were on the business desk.’

‘Apparently I can do sport, too,’ she said, walking to the table to join him. ‘So, what’s going on? I thought you were working on a big mining project, and here you are lazing around the yacht club in a sailing shirt.’

Byron sat down again to get away from Lucy’s intense expression. He could feel her brown eyes boring into his face, calmly assessing him. It was slightly unnerving, but unbelievably sexy at the same time. And while he should have been keeping his guard up, all he could think about was holding her tight and kissing her. He nervously glanced at her stilettos, then decided it was safer to just answer the question.

‘So, you really want to know what’s going on?’

Lucy’s face softened slightly as she nodded. ‘I really would. I’m hoping we can be friends, at least. But right now, I feel like you’re not telling me the full story. It’s kind of hard to trust you.’

Byron looked into Lucy’s beautiful eyes. They were beseeching him to tell the truth. He was so tempted to just blurt out everything – to explain why he’d been at the bar, to tell her why the package was so important to him, to share everything he knew about the Cobra. But he just wasn’t sure he could trust her, either. He knew Cal was right. Lucy was a reporter, and if she had a story she was going to use it. He didn’t want it to be like that. But he couldn’t change who she was. And he couldn’t change himself.

‘My boss is one of the owners of Hound Dog. He’s a mad keen sailor. He conscripted me for the support crew.’

‘Was he the one I saw in the Art Bar – the guy in the safari suit?’

Byron nodded. ‘That’s him.’

Lucy frowned. ‘But you weren’t sitting together.’

Byron hesitated for a moment. ‘He wanted me there but didn’t want me sitting with him. He’s very secretive – totally eccentric.’

‘Definitely,’ Lucy nodded. ‘So how did I end up with Miss Chan’s shirt?’

‘We’d never met her. That’s why he gave the package to you instead of her.’

‘Miss Chan’s on the yacht? I didn’t even see any women.

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