Heavenly Angels by Carole Mortimer

Author:Carole Mortimer
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 1996-10-11T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TEN

ANOTHER bloody awful day!

Actually, it had started last night, when Lisa had arrived so unexpectedly at his apartment—only to walk out again minutes later when she saw Beth moving quietly out of the sitting-room to the bedrooms, her calculating mind adding two and two together and coming up with an answer that had been crude to say the least!

Or had it started before that, when he had kissed Beth…?

God, what had he been doing? The woman was here to help with the kids, and he had repaid her by attempting to seduce her! Although he wasn’t too sure the bunch of flowers he held in his hand as a peace offering was such a good idea either… What if she took the gesture the wrong way and thought he was trying another seductive ploy? What if—? Oh, damn it; he had brought the flowers as a peace offering, and she could damn well accept them as such!

She wasn’t anywhere in sight to accept anything when he let himself into the apartment. In fact, there was no sign of anyone when he walked into the sitting-room. And after the last couple of days of noise and chaos it was very strange to be met with complete silence, to find himself completely alone. Was this what it was going to be like once the children had gone back to Samantha?

Nick sat down heavily in an armchair, looking about him at the home he had created for himself over the last five years. It was expensively decorated and furnished, unstintingly so, but as he looked at the beautiful objects that adorned his home he could see that that was all they were—objects, beautiful objects, but with no warmth, or caring, or—or laughter. There had been laughter, genuine laughter, in his home yesterday—a warmth that owed much to Beth’s presence, he knew. And somehow his ordered existence—completely selfish, he now admitted—no longer had the appeal it had once had. Oh, it was disruptive and noisy having the children here, but at the same time it was real.

And he knew from last night that Beth was very real too…!

‘Shall I put those in water for you?’

He turned sharply at the sound of Beth’s voice, all his logical reasoning about his behaviour last night disappearing the moment he looked at her again. She was beautiful—the warmth of her hair glowing in those clear green eyes, her smile wide and endearing. Only for him? In a moment of blinding truth, Nick knew that he wanted it to be.

‘Nick?’ Her smile wavered slightly as she looked at him concernedly.

He didn’t like her smile disappearing like that, realised he had been looking forward to seeing this particular smile all day. ‘They’re for you.’ He thrust the red carnations at her, inwardly wincing at how ungracious he sounded, almost as if he half resented giving her the damned flowers. But then, it was a long time since he had actually given any woman flowers; he usually telephoned a florist and had them delivered to the latest woman in his life.

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