Forbidden Kisses with the Boss by Penny Jordan

Author:Penny Jordan [Jordan, Penny]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781488098161
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 1989-06-23T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

AS SHE followed him down the gravel drive, Hannah was glad she had changed her high heels for more comfortable flat shoes. Close to, she could see the dilapidation that time had wrought on the soft brick façade of the house. Darker patches of colour on the walls showed where ivy had once grown. The soft sandstone mullions were worn away in places, and Silas explained to her that these were going to be repaired.

Part of the trustees’ work would be to get as many suppliers as possible to supply them free of charge.

As they walked into the house, a thin beam of sunlight which had pierced the grey clouds and highlighted the rich colour of the brickwork disappeared. Already the first of the season’s leaves were beginning to drift down on to the driveway.

Inside, the hall was dark and gloomy, small Tudor windows allowing in only a small amount of daylight. Panelling similar to that at the Dower House clothed the walls of the large rectangular room. It had an ornately plastered ceiling and an enormous fireplace in roughly hewn stone, with a date and the arms of whoever had commissioned it carved into it. The few pieces of heavy, dusty furniture scattered round the room looked forlorn.

‘I know, it doesn’t look very welcoming at the moment, does it?’ Silas commented, grimacing a little. ‘We’ll go into the drawing-room and I’ll show you the plans.’

Hannah followed him, avoiding the small heaps of rubble on the floor, through a series of ornately carved doors into a room which had windows overlooking both the front and the side of the house. The room was furnished with several settees and some chairs, all of them covered with large sheets of calico. Silas headed for a battered oak table, unrolling the plans as he reached it.

‘This is what we’re hoping to do,’ he told Hannah, speaking to her over his shoulder. ‘Come and have a look.’

She approached him cautiously, not wanting to get too close to him, and when she stood hesitantly several feet away from him he frowned and said curtly, ‘You can’t see anything from there. Come here, closer.’

He didn’t seem to be satisfied until they were standing practically shoulder to shoulder, Hannah so tensely aware of the heat emanating from his flesh to her own that, even though she was staring down at the plans, none of the lines drawn on them made the slightest sense to her. She tried to concentrate on what Silas was saying about splitting up the large bedrooms into smaller, more compact units, and thought she was doing quite well, until he suddenly said in exasperation, ‘You’re not looking at the right place. It’s here that I’m talking about.’ His forefinger jabbed impatiently at one of the drawings, and before she could guess what he intended to do his other hand reached out and cupped her face, turning it ungently in the direction in which he was pointing.

The shock of the unexpected and unwanted physical contact obliterated everything else.

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