Harlequin Presents--August 2021--Box Set 2 of 2 by Maisey Yates

Author:Maisey Yates
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2021-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWO

IT WAS RAINING the following morning when Ellie left her flat for work, a fine, demoralising drizzle that seeped under her lightweight mac and clothes, and settled with clammy persistence on her skin.

She’d had a restless night. The ‘back to the usual routine’, which James had jauntily flung at her before departing to satisfy the demands of his unashamedly curious staff, had failed to materialise.

At least for her.

The door he’d opened had remained stubbornly open even though she had thrown herself into work for what had remained of the day, barely lifting her eyes from her computer as she’d blitzed all the emails waiting to be dealt with and given ferocious attention to whatever slim backlog of reports there were to go through.

Head bowed, she had still managed to feel the full wattage of his attention on her, however. He’d perched on her desk, rattling off instructions at his usual breakneck speed, and she’d felt his eyes boring into her, felt his curiosity about those titbits he had managed to eke out of her, opinions she had somehow found herself forced into confiding. She had slid her eyes sideways and been confronted with his black jeans pulled taut over a muscular thigh and had hurriedly had to look away.

So now, hurrying against the blowing, fading summer drizzle, the last thing she expected was to hear a woman’s voice calling her name from behind. In fact, she ignored the summons for a few seconds, and only stopped when she felt a hand on her shoulder, at which point she swung round sharply, blinking as the wind blew back the hood of her mac and the rain fell lightly against her face.

She peered up, subliminally taking in the high black shoes, the stupidly long, slender legs, the short red burst of skirt and the black top, all partially concealed beneath the distinctive cream and black check of a designer trench coat. The leggy blonde was enviably dry because she’d had the basic common sense to carry an umbrella with her. So, while Ellie pushed her wet hair from her face and grappled with the hood of her mac, which insisted on doing its own thing, the other woman managed to look only slightly and attractively tousled.

‘You probably don’t remember me.’

Ellie remembered very well. Not many people could forget Naomi. They had met in passing a month ago, purely by chance, when Ellie had been hurrying to cross the road to get to her bus on the other side. Naomi had been in the passenger seat of James’s Ferrari and he had screeched to a halt at the kerb to offer Ellie a lift to wherever she was going. Perfunctory introductions had been made, and in five seconds Ellie had been able to commit to memory the bored blue eyes of his companion, the shiny, long, straight blonde hair swept over one shoulder, the pale golden tanned skin flawlessly smooth and the tiny diamond stud in her perfectly straight nose.

No mistaking the blonde standing in front of her now, although the eyes were more desperate than bored.

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