From Dirt to Diamonds by Julia James

Author:Julia James
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: HP 2011-09 Sept
ISBN: 9780373130146
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2011-07-14T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIX

Someone was knocking softly. Thea heard the sound of a door opening, then a female voice spoke.

‘Madam, breakfast is served.’

Blearily, Thea raised her head from the pillow. She had scarcely slept—not until dawn had been fingering across the city sky. Her head had been filled with memories—memories she had fought for five years.

I let him—I let him kiss me. I did not fight, I did not yell, or pull away, or hit at him, or anything—anything at all. I just stood there and let him do that to me …

But now, at last, the day had come—her release. She was free, she thought blankly, to go home, take up her empty life again.

Swiftly, she made a basic toilette, desperate to be gone. But as she walked out of her bedroom her eyes immediately fell on him, fully dressed in a business suit, seated at the breakfast table. There was no sign of the maid who had roused her. His head turned as she came into the room. For a moment their eyes met, then she blanked hers and said, her tone brisk, ‘I’m going now.’

His expression did not change. ‘You’re going nowhere. Come here, Kat, and sit down. I may not keep my mistresses long, but I keep them longer than one night. You’re coming with me to Geneva—we leave at noon.’

Her dismay was open. ‘I can’t just leave London. I have appointments.’ It was all she could think to say through the tide of rejection sweeping through her at his words.

‘Cancel them,’ he said indifferently. ‘Your agency can phone my office if there are any problems. I’ll compensate for any contractual objections arising from your absence.’

She stood, fulminating with fury—and something more than fury that was not fear, never fear, but still made her want to rush from the room. But if she did his threat to expose her to Giles would hang over her head still …

She set her face. She could not let Angelos see either her fury or her dismay. ‘You said noon, I believe?’ she said carelessly.

He nodded.

‘Very well.’ She didn’t bother to ask what she should pack. Didn’t bother to do anything except head for the door and leave.

At the table, Angelos watched her go. Was he deranged? Deranged to do this? Yet one glimpse of her standing there, bristling and defiant, her face bare of make-up yet still startlingly beautiful, had told him that his decision was the right one. Definitely the right one. Whatever he wasn’t sure about, one thing was for sure—he was not about to let Kat Jones go.

The executive jet skimmed the cloud surface. Sunlight poured in through Thea’s porthole. How could the world be so bright when inside her head was only darkness? Across the aisle Angelos sat, ensconced in paperwork. Her mask of studied indifference had hardly been needed. He had ignored her presence throughout the journey to the airfield and so far throughout the flight. His attention had been reserved only for his work—and the smiling stewardess who had fawned over him.

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