Prescription for Romance by Marie Ferrarella

Author:Marie Ferrarella [Ferrarella, Marie]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: The Baby Chase, Category
ISBN: 9780373654994
Publisher: Silhouette
Published: 2010-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

“So, how do you like working at the institute?” Ramona asked once they were seated at a table in Stella’s, the quaint Italian restaurant a block or two from the clinic. The food was as old-fashioned as the decor and just as tasty as the aroma drifting in from the kitchen promised it would be.The server took their orders and retreated, leaving them with bread sticks that were out of this world.

“Shouldn’t I be the one asking you that?” Paul wanted to know, looking at her. Her hair looked somewhat darker in the dim light. It was medium gold instead of bright blond, Paul caught himself thinking. Either way, it was incredibly attractive.

“I already know how I feel about working at the institute,” she answered. “But you must have had a hard time, trying to walk in your father’s shoes.” Her eyes were on his, looking for a reaction as she said, “If I had to guess, I’d say that Gerald Armstrong was a hard act to follow.”

He shrugged. “I just try to do justice to his vision.”

Paul loved his father, she realized, and couldn’t help wondering if that affection was returned, or if the senior Armstrong had been too wrapped up in his work and in the women who’d fawned on him over the years to even realize the precious thing he was ignoring.

She bit off a piece of bread stick, then asked as nonchalantly as she could, “And, in your opinion, have you succeeded?”

His eyes narrowed as he picked up a bread stick of his own. “I thought you were asking me out to lunch, not an interview.”

She needed to dial it back a little, Ramona told herself. She had a tendency to come on strong. That would be a mistake here.

“This isn’t an interview,” she told him innocently. “I’m just trying to get a few things more clear so that I can tell your story better when I get around to writing it.”

He straightened, abandoning the last of the bread stick. “Tell my story to whom?”

“To the general public,” she answered. “I was thinking of putting together a piece on the institute. You know, on how it came about, the changes that were implemented when you and your brother and sister took over, things like that. I want to send it to one of the papers that has a Sunday magazine. Part of the reason you have to put up with rumors and detractors is that not enough people understand what it is you do. I think that too many of them regard you as being on the same level as Dr. Frankenstein—trying to create life out of thin air and coming up with Boris Karloff.”

He couldn’t say that he liked the idea of being dissected in public, or even held up to scrutiny. Not because he had anything to hide, but because he was and always had been a private person. The spotlight was for people like his father and Derek. They enjoyed it. He just wanted to be left alone to do his work.

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