Lady Be Good by Amber Brock

Author:Amber Brock
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Crown/Archetype
Published: 2018-06-25T16:00:00+00:00

The next morning, Kitty awoke far earlier than she’d expected to the sound of church bells. No, not church bells. An alarm? Not urgent enough for an alarm sound.

The phone! She leapt out of bed. Even with her cloudy head, she still remembered the need to keep Hen from talking to Charles. When she picked up the receiver, however, it wasn’t Charles on the other end of the line.

“Papa,” she said, with a hard exhale.

“Hello, princess. How are you?”

“I’m so glad to talk to you. I was planning to call you, actually. I feel like we haven’t spoken in months.”

Her father laughed. “I think it’s only been a few days since our last call.”

“A few long days,” she said. “So how’s New York?”

“Cold. I’m jealous of all that warm sunshine Andre tells me you have down there.”

Kitty frowned. Was Andre talking to her father more often than she was? “That’s why you should come down. At least for Christmas. It’s only two weeks away now.”

“Less than that. I’ll see what I can do.”

The firmness in his tone kept her from pushing further. Surely he would make the effort to see her on Christmas, even if it was just for a night or two. Perhaps he planned to surprise her, and that was why he hadn’t confirmed anything.

His voice broke into her thoughts. “And how’s our girl?”

“I don’t think Loco likes the sand too much. She’s strictly a sidewalk sort of gal. New Yorker through and through.”

“Sounds about right.” He paused. “So I have an idea for you.”

“Oh, yeah?”

“I’m sending Andre on a little excursion. A scouting trip, I guess you could call it. Got it all arranged this morning.”

Kitty blinked at the clock on the nightstand. Andre was already working this morning? It had nearly been sunrise when he’d left the suite. He really was a pack mule. “Oh?”

“The more I thought about it, the more I thought it might make a nice little getaway for him. Especially since it sounds like it’s been hard for you to spend time with him like you’d hoped.” Her father’s voice took on a slight edge.

“Did he say that? We’ve had dinner together practically every night.”

“And Hen was the one he took to a bridge game.”

“You didn’t think I was actually going to play bridge, did you?”

“Katarina. I need to know you’re taking this seriously.”

Kitty sighed. “I didn’t know that meant taking bridge seriously.”

“You aren’t down there to lounge by the pool.” His voice took a sharp tone she had rarely heard from him. “I expect you to do better, or you know what’s waiting for you.”

She answered with what she hoped was a suitably meek assent. “So where is he going?”

“Havana.”

She nearly dropped the phone. When she’d sworn to go the next place Andre offered to take her, she had no idea it would be anywhere as exciting as Havana. “Why is he going there?”

“He’s going down there to talk to some nightclub owners. After the Atlanta deal fell through, I had a man there approach me about—” He stopped short.

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