Fixed Up with Mr. Right? by Marie Ferrarella

Author:Marie Ferrarella [Ferrarella, Marie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Matchmaking Mamas, Category
ISBN: 9780373655236
Publisher: Silhouette
Published: 2010-04-30T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

“I f this is a working dinner, exactly what is it that you think you’re working?”

The question was directed from Kate to Kate, or at least to the image she saw reflected in her wardrobe door mirror.The bed behind her looked as if it was sagging under the growing weight of clothes in her hunt for the perfect outfit. So far, she’d found fault with each one she’d tried on.

What she was currently reviewing with a super-critical eye would have never found its way into the work place—unless “work” involved squiring upscale clients who had a large wad of disposable cash to waste by investing it in a single evening’s “entertainment.” High priced, but still a lady of the evening.

“You don’t want Wainwright getting the wrong idea,” she told the reflection sternly as she began to snake the outfit she had on down her hips. When it hit the floor, she picked it up and flung the garment onto the pile accumulating on the bed.

Standing in sky-blue lingerie, Kate frowned. At this rate, she would either have to cancel dinner, falling back on the age-old cliché that she had nothing to wear, or she would resort to something her mother used to refer to as a “party dress.” The term dated back to when she was eight years old.

“Of course, you could always wrap yourself up in cellophane,” she quipped. “Or go naked.”

Her palms were damp, she realized. This was ridiculous.

Why was she so nervous? Kate upbraided herself. This wasn’t a date, this was just a meeting with a client that happened to take place over cutlery and selected cuts of beef, nothing more. That he happened to be gorgeous, well, that wasn’t her fault. That was just an extraneous fact.

Determined to regroup, Kate sank down onto the only tiny corner of her queen-size bed that wasn’t littered with discarded clothing.

She knew damn well what was at the bottom of all this. While professionally she had a sharp legal mind coupled with keen instincts, the instincts she had in her private life left a little to be desired.

Who was she kidding? They left a great deal to be desired. A great deal, she emphasized. The same woman who could succinctly read a jury, an opposing counsel and the most poker-faced of judges suddenly had the in-depth instincts of a pet rock when it came to reading a man in her private life. And she had the scars to prove it.

That was the only explanation for not picking up any of Matt’s warning signs. Matthew McBain, a dashing, top-flight criminal lawyer who had single-handedly turned sleeping around into an art form. There’d been whispers about his extracurricular activities and, though it hadn’t been easy for him, Kullen had come right out and told her what Matt was up to. But she, Pearl Pure-heart, had refused to believe it.

Until the evidence became so overwhelming and damning that only a first-class fool would have denied it. Her heart all but constricting in her chest, she gave in to the inevitable and had handed Matt his walking papers.

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