Mistress for a Night by Diana Hamilton

Author:Diana Hamilton [Hamilton, Diana]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Romance
ISBN: 9780263817461
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 1999-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

Georgia woke at midday, but only because Blossom came into the bedroom with a tray of fresh fruit and steaming hot coffee.

The housekeeper opened the shutters and let the bright light in, washing the cool lemon walls with gold. ‘Has that headache gone? Mr Jason said to leave you to sleep, but I thought you needed some food inside you; ’specially since you didn’t eat supper.’

Georgia blinked. Even Blossom’s most solicitous whisper was loud! ‘I’m fine, now, thank you.’ She pulled herself up against the pillows to accept the tray, aware that she’d fallen into bed still wearing the scarlet robe. The dose of whisky Jason had put into her hot milk must have been of knock-out proportions.

Thinking of him injected that familiar squirming, tightening sensation deep inside her. She wished her stupid body would grow some sense, stop responding so catastrophically to him. No other man could do that to her. And more than a few had tried.

Hoping her face hadn’t gone as red as she felt it had, she dug the spoon into the bowl of diced fruit. Inwardly deploring her need to know, and trying to sound off-hand, she asked, ‘What’s Jason doing?’

‘Gone fishin’ with Elijah. Let’s hope it improves his bad temper!’

‘Bad temper?’ What had brought that on? Last night—despite the strange madness that had overtaken them both in the afternoon, and to which, thankfully, he hadn’t referred—he had shown her nothing but consideration, offering her the release of talking about her early years with a mother who had never wanted her. Only when he’d spoken of Harold’s serial philandering had his voice grown harsh, and that was understandable, considering what his mother must have had to endure.

‘Bad mood, more like,’ Blossom amended. ‘Like a black crow sitting on his shoulders! Why want to be like that on such a lovely day?’

Why, indeed? Georgia thought as Blossom left her to finish her belated breakfast in peace. Pouring herself a second cup of coffee, she decided she wasn’t going to let it bother her. After last night there was too much to think about, so today, with Jason safely out of the way, she would just go with the flow, relax, enjoy all that this small slice of paradise could offer.

After her shower she got into her one-piece swimsuit. The amber colour matched her eyes—eyes which seemed oddly wide and innocent this morning.

Pushing her feet into canvas slip-ons, and cramming a floppy-brimmed straw hat on her head, she reflected that she seemed to have left her sharp, street-wise persona back in the coldness of the English winter.

It didn’t bother her. She’d get it all back, no question, as soon as she returned home and took up the threads of her real life again. Then, as she was stuffing her tube of sunblock, her sunglasses and a fat paperback into a flowery cotton shoulder bag, she wondered if this relaxed, go-with-the-flow mood was down to island magic or Jason’s presence.

The island, of course. She dismissed the other possibility out of hand as being utter nonsense.

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