Kate Hardy - In Bed with her Italian Boss by Anja

Author:Anja [Anja]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2012-04-28T12:14:09+00:00

‘Hey. You said I could choose whatever chocolates I liked in Fortnum’s. Of course I’m going to buy you a birthday present.’ She grinned. ‘You’ll be spending a lot of money on me.

I’m just as greedy as you are—’

Yes, please, he thought.

‘—when it comes to chocolate.’

Oh, lord. He needed to get his mind back to real life, not fantasy.

He opened the parcel to discover a black cashmere sweater that felt like a soft caress against his skin. Like her mouth tracing a path down his throat, all warm and sweet and incredibly sexy. ‘Fran, this is…I don’t know what to say.’ He leaned forward to kiss her cheek in thanks, and somehow ended up brushing his mouth against hers. A soft, sweet, gentle kiss that made his body feel lit up from within, like the sparklers she’d put on his birthday cake.

He broke the kiss, and for one crazy moment he almost marched over to the door so he could lock it behind them and then stride back to his desk and kiss her properly, until they were both dizzy with need and took the kiss to its ultimate conclusion. The conclusion maybe it should’ve reached on Sunday, when they’d been kissing on her sofa. The conclusion he hadn’t been able to get out of his head ever since.

And then common sense washed back in.

She’d agreed to help him out by pretending to be his girlfriend, for his family’s sake. And he was really going to need her when he expanded the business. So the last thing he should be doing was taking advantage of her. ‘Thank you, Fran,’ he said quietly, and left the office while his self-control would still let him. At the end of the day, Fran stayed behind. ‘I forgot to tell you something.’

He went cold. ‘What?’ That she’d found another job? That she’d changed her mind about accepting a permanent role at Giovanni’s? That she had a prior engagement so she couldn’t go to the family party on Saturday night?

‘Your parents and Nonna would expect me, as your girlfriend, to take you out to dinner tonight, seeing that it’s your birthday.’

He shook his head. ‘It’s OK. You don’t have to do that. I’ll get a takeaway delivered.’

‘No, really. I have to eat. And I have a couple of suggestions about the business, so we might as well multi-task it.’

How could he resist? ‘Are you saying you’d make me work late on my birthday?’

‘Let you, more like,’ she teased back. ‘I’ll meet you outside your place in an hour.’

‘So where are we going?’

‘Within walking distance.’

He rolled his eyes. ‘That’s only half an answer.’

‘It’s the best you’re going to get. And the dress code is whatever you like.’

He loved the way she teased him. The way she’d come out of her shell over the last month.

He’d wondered if meeting his family would bring out her shy streak even more, but it hadn’t—

quite the opposite. And he really, really liked this confident, bubbly woman who’d emerged from her slightly too serious exterior.

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