Harlequin Special Edition July 2018 Box Set 1 of 2 by Christine Rimmer

Author:Christine Rimmer
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2018-10-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TEN

Allegra didn’t question Zander’s sudden appearance at the museum at first. On some level, she wasn’t the least bit surprised to find him standing in the lobby after her meeting with the event planner. She felt like she’d been looking over her shoulder for a glimpse of him since the moment she’d stepped through the building’s familiar columned entryway.

Which was silly, really. Why should Zander be at the Museum of Natural History on a random Friday night? This was the present, not the past. They weren’t children anymore.

Yet there he was, dressed in one of his impeccably cut suits with his smoldering gaze fixed unwaveringly on hers as she crossed the room toward him.

Her breathing grew increasingly shallow with each click of her stilettos on the mosaic tile floor. What was he doing here, anyway?

She gazed up at him. He was a good three or four inches taller than she was, even in her heels. The last time she’d been so close to him in this same spot, they’d stood eye to eye. So much had changed.

Has it, though? Has it really?

“Zander.” She swallowed. “You’re here.”

“Indeed I am.” He cast a glance at the crowd of elegantly dressed people spilling through the museum’s doors.

When his gaze flitted back to Allegra, her stomach gave an annoying little flip. “I’m confused. What’s going on?”

Had Emily told him where to find her?

No, that couldn’t be it. Allegra had told her she had an appointment to talk to someone about a location for the dance marathon, but she very purposefully hadn’t breathed a word about the museum. She didn’t want to promise something until she was 100 percent sure she could deliver.

As it turned out, she couldn’t.

Her father’s name was engraved on a memorial plaque in the museum’s turret offices, and an exhibition in one of the galleries had been named after him “in gratitude for over a decade of service.” Almost everyone in the event-planning department remembered Allegra and had kind things to say about her father, but that was where the special treatment ended. The museum’s schedule was packed for the next year and a half. The soonest they could accommodate the dance marathon would be the middle of next year, and even then, Allegra would be expected to pay the full going rate.

“You first,” Zander said. “What are you doing here?”

“I had a meeting. It was disastrous.” She tilted her head. “You?”

“I’m here for a wedding.” Zander clenched his jaw. “Sort of.”

“Sort of?” Allegra lifted an eyebrow.

How did a person sort of attend a wedding?

“Correct. Sort of.” Again, his gaze darted toward the flow of guests moving from the glass double doors toward the Milstein Hall of Ocean Life.

“Oh, my God.” Allegra let out a laugh and then dropped her voice to a conspiratorial whisper. “You’re crashing, aren’t you?”

“No.” The corner of Zander’s mouth quirked into a grin. “Okay, yes. But not the actual reception. I’m only lingering at the cocktail hour to see if I can find the reporter who keeps writing about the curse in the Times.

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