Redemption of a Ruthless Billionaire by Lucy Ellis

Author:Lucy Ellis [Ellis, Lucy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarlequinUKLtd
Published: 2017-12-31T23:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TEN

SYBELLA WAS HOLDING a spanner, dressed much as she had been when he’d come here the last time, casually but this time in jeans and a jumper.

But the spanner in her hand, the brown water in her sink, the harried expression on her face gave him the feeling he was seeing Sybella as she really was, those little duck legs she’d spoken about churning around.

He took in the mess and began shedding his jacket.

‘What are you doing?’

He took the spanner out of her hand and tossed his jacket onto a chair. ‘I’ll fix this. You go fix yourself up.’

Sybella just stood there. Had she missed something? Some lost text where he explained why he’d made no contact for a week? Although the ground shifted under her there, because she could surely have texted him something better than a line about the Hall.

And she was so glad to see him.

Then she realised she was standing in front of him in an oversized jumper with the neck and head of a giraffe appliqued on its front.

Yes, she would fix herself up. Immediately.

* * *

Nik had retrieved the culprit in the pipe, a plastic figurine about an inch in diameter, had the water draining away and had put through a call to a cleaning service when he realised he wasn’t alone.

He turned around. A small dark head was bobbing around the edge of the doorway.

‘Hello,’ he said.

The head vanished. He waited. Gradually it inched forward again and a pair of big violet-blue eyes in a sweet squarish little face presented itself. The winter-dark hair that had fallen around her face the last time he’d seen her was tied up in bunches.

She was cute as a button.

‘Do you remember me?’ he said, keeping absolutely still and feeling completely out of his depth. He had no problem facing down angry mining bosses but confronted with a little girl he discovered he had nothing. ‘I’m Nik. I’m a friend of your mama’s.’

She didn’t vanish this time; instead she edged her way into the kitchen, shy as a mouse. She was dressed in a long green skirt that didn’t look entirely legit and some sort of long-sleeved yellow top with an appliqued picture of a horse on it. Apparently the fashion had caught on.

Nik was struck by how little she was, and also that he was a strange man in her house. He reached for something to say that wouldn’t scare her.

She beat him to it. ‘You’re not a real giant, are you? Because you can fit in a house.’

This was said in a piping voice with a great deal more confidence than he’d expected from her entrance.

‘No, I’m not a giant,’ he said slowly, trying not to smile.

‘Mummy said you were an angry giant and a north god.’

A north what?

‘I wasn’t really angry with your mama. I got some things wrong. I’m sorry if I upset her.’

She lifted and dropped her small shoulders. ‘That’s okay.’

Nik remembered what he had in his hand and held it out to her.

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