Red Rose For Love by Carole Mortimer

Author:Carole Mortimer
Language: deu
Format: epub

CHAPTER SIX

'I—I WILL?' she stammered, overwhelmed by this sudden gift of time with him when she had thought she would never see him again.

Green eyes sharpened on her pale face. 'Are you sure you're feeling better?'

'Yes!' Her tone was indignantly impatient now.

'If you say so,' he shrugged, but still he frowned. 'No argument about the Hampshire idea?'

'No.'

'Why not?' he asked abruptly.

Eve shrugged. 'I need the rest.'

Bart raised his eyebrows. 'You're very meek all of a sudden,' he said thoughtfully. Her eyes sparkled with anger. 'And you don't like me to be meek,' she recalled. 'I'll have to remember that.'

Some of the harshness left his face. 'When you want to annoy me, hmm?'

'Yes,' she snapped. If he preferred antagonism then that was exactly what he was going to get.

'That's better,' Bart grinned, taking hold of her elbow. 'Let's go, Derek's waiting for us.'

Derek was waiting beside the dark limousine Eve had been given a lift in the first night she had met Bart, although the chauffeur was noticeably absent. Derek sat in the back, the dividing window wound down, and Eve sat beside Bart in the front. He drove the huge car confidently.

He turned as he saw her questioning look. 'You're wondering why I don't drive myself all the time,' he mused. Eve flushed at his ability to be able to read her mind. She would have to be careful of that, it wouldn't do for him to guess she was in love with him. 'Yes,' she confirmed tautly.

'I usually work in the back on the drive to and from work,' he explained.

'You work too hard,' she said without thinking, hearing Derek's snort of disbelief from the back and realising he thought she had been too outspoken. 'Sorry,' she mumbled. 'It's none of my business when you choose to work.'

‘No, it isn't,' he agreed tersely.

They dropped Derek off at the hotel he and Judy had been staying at. 'I have my own ear here,' he explained at Eve's dismayed look. 'We'll be driving back to London later today. Give me a call when you feel like having visitors,' he grinned at her, his eyes twinkling mischievously.

'Eve won't be in a prison.' Bart had obviously picked up Derek's mocking tone, scowling heavily. 'No one is making her accept these arrangements.' He turned to give her a dark look. 'Would you rather go to a nursing home?'

'No,' she shook her head firmly.

'Very well.' His hard gaze returned to Derek. 'Visit Eve any time you like,' he said in an offhand voice, 'She won't be going anywhere.'

Derek looked a little sheepish. 'I only meant--'

'It isn't important,' Bart cut in impatiently. 'I'd like to get going now, I have a dinner engagement this evening.'

Eve stiffened at his mention of a dinner engagement, managing to turn and wave to Derek out of the back window, her smile brittle and meaningless. Who was Bart having dinner with this evening? Was he just going to leave her in his house in Hampshire and go off to London to

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