Kept by the Spanish Billionaire by Cathy Williams

Author:Cathy Williams [Williams, Cathy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2007-11-21T20:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIX

AMY could hear herself babbling. It was something that usually happened after a couple of glasses of wine, when she was relaxed and expansive in confiding her emotions to whoever happened to be listening. Her friends told her that it was very sweet. She interpreted that, once she had sobered up, to mean that it was an intensely irritating and boring trait that they put up with because they were her friends.

Rafael Vives was not her friend. She wasn’t quite sure what he was, but he certainly wasn’t her friend even though he had bought her a fantastic dress that felt great and looked better, and was now in the process of spending money feeding her. At what appeared to be a very expensive restaurant even though he had assured her that it was in fact very reasonable and part of a chain, making it sound as though it really were on a level with the Pizza Hut she went to every so often for something to eat after work with her friends.

‘You need to get out more often,’ Amy said suddenly, interrupting herself in mid-flow with a sudden change of topic. She was impressed to see that Rafael didn’t bat an eyelid at the abrupt digression. He just topped up her glass and raised his eyebrows enquiringly. He did that very nicely, she thought with tipsy appreciation. Little inclination of the head, slight smile playing on his lips, just a fetching hint of amusement in his expression.

‘Why do you say that?’

‘Well, all this effort for a stranger?’ Amy looked around her. ‘I know you’ve told me that this is some kind of cheap fast food chain—’

‘I don’t recall describing it as “cheap” or “fast food”.’

‘Technicality.’ Amy waved her hand to dismiss his interruption. ‘Fact is…’ she leaned towards him and made a very concentrated effort to sound grave and in control of her wayward mouth, which had a tendency to let her down at the best of times, never mind after a couple of drinks ‘…you didn’t have to bring me on this sightseeing tour of The Big Apple…’ She frowned. ‘Where does that expression come from anyway? The Big Apple? Funny things, expressions…’ She propped her chin in the palm of one hand and looked at him thoughtfully. At any rate, thoughtful was the expression she was aiming for rather than gawping, which she felt very much like doing, as she had felt since the night had kicked off two hours earlier with a drink at a trendy bar in downtown Manhattan. She had dressed in her flimsy, sexy red dress, feeling like a million dollars, and he had dressed in something he had bought in the space of five seconds on their way back to James’s company apartment. How could a five-second shop produce such a staggering result? she had later wondered.

The black trousers, plain shirt and dark brogues might well have been the sort of outfit that she would have found ridiculously stodgy on a man, but on him it looked fantastic.

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