Madeleine Ker by Ruthless Husband Convenient Wife

Author:Ruthless Husband, Convenient Wife
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2012-05-05T13:16:48+00:00

CHAPTER NINE

BUTby the time they got back to London, the argument between them had flared up again, and it was as though they had never even been friends, let alone lovers.

‘Why won’t you move in with me?’ he demanded angrily, as they drove back from Heathrow Airport.

The argument had begun because she had asked him to drive her back to her digs for the night, rather than to the Knightsbridge apartment. ‘What’s the point of your keeping up that shabby little bedsit when you could be living comfortably at my place?’

‘The point isn’t comfort,’ she snapped. She was tired and irritable. The flight back from Italy had been bumpy and there had been long delays at both ends.

‘Would you mind telling me what the point is, then?’

‘It’s preserving my independence, Ryan. Without a little bit of autonomy, I can’t have any self-respect.’

‘That’s just silly,’ he retorted. ‘We’ve just spent a heavenly few days in Milan together. Why can’t we go home together?’

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‘Well, I need to tidy my place up,’ she said. ‘Water my plants. Do some dusting. And check my postbox.’

‘There won’t be anything to eat in your flat.’

‘Oh, I’ll walk down to the Chinese takeaway. I don’t mind.’

‘Penny, I’ll wait while you do your chores. Then I’ll take you home and we’ll have an early supper and a glass of wine, and go to bed together.’

‘It’s your home, Ryan, not mine,’ she said, looking out of the window at the stream of traffic moving through the twilit streets. The London sky looked smoky, with a Victorian feel, though the haze was due to motor cars these days, not chimneys.

‘It should be your home, too. Everything I have is yours, you know that by now.’

‘But I haven’t earned any of that. I realise I’m being selfish. I just hoped you would understand. I know you’ve just given me a wonderful trip to Milan, but I need to be on my own for a while.’

‘Is my company so irksome?’

‘Ryan, I love being with you. It’s not that. I just need time to get my damp little toes back on the ground, can’t you understand that? You’re used to living at high speed. I’m not. You probably want to be off to Rio tomorrow. Or Moscow.’

‘Neither,’ he said. ‘But we do have to be in Paris again next week.’

‘Paris! You make my head spin!’

‘I always make plenty of time for us to do movies, museums, shopping. It should not be a hardship to go to Paris.’

‘It wouldn’t be—if I had any choice in the matter. But I don’t! I just get my orders. “Pack for Paris, we leave at 0800 hours.” Sometimes I think I’d rather go down to the chip shop under my own steam than fly to Paris under yours.’ She knew it was a rude thing to say, but she was angry with his domineering manner, and wanted to assert herself. She was rewarded by seeing the anger in his eyes as he glanced at her.

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