Jill Mansell by Perfect Timing

Author:Perfect Timing [Timing, Perfect]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: ePub Bud (www.epubbud.com)
Published: 2011-11-03T16:00:00+00:00

The auction of the von Kantz at Gillingham’s was over in no time flat. Four telephone bidders battled it out and in less than ninety seconds it was all over.

If Poppy had nipped to the loo she would have missed it. She clutched Jake’s arm as the auctioneer’s gavel fell. Dead Hamster on a Patio had just been bought by a New York collector for seven hundred and seventy thousand pounds.

‘How do you feel?’ asked Ross Wilder, the journalist from the Mail who was sitting next to Poppy.

‘I need a pee.’

‘Congratulations.’ He shook Jake’s hand.

‘How do you really feel?’ Ross murmured in Poppy’s ear as they made their way out of the auction rooms.

‘Look,’ said Poppy, ‘since I started working for Jake, all I’ve ever done is muck things up and lose him money. Now, for once in my life, I’ve done something right. 1 couldn’t be happier,’ she told him firmly. ‘Nobody deserves it more than Jake.’

She meant it, she really did. And Ross was almost sure he knew why.

‘You and Jake,’ he said, nodding encouragement, ‘tell me, are you two an item?’

Jake was walking ahead of them. Poppy caught up and tapped him on the shoulder. His green shirt had a nylony slither to it.

‘Ross wants to know if you’re going to make an honest woman of me.’

‘Honest?’ Jake looked incredulous. ‘Remember a certain cheese and pickle sandwich? You still owe me fifty pence.’

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