Reluctant Mistress, Blackmailed Wife by Lynne Graham

Author:Lynne Graham
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2006-09-04T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

FOUR weeks later, Katie attended the opening of an art gallery in the company of a handsome young Greek businessman and his sister.

When she had returned from Italy Alexandros had been in New York, and she had spent more than a week as a guest in Pelias and Calliope Christakis’s comfortable London home. There she had met a lot of people, because the sociable older couple had made a special effort to draw her into their social circle. Damon and Eugena Bourikas, who had initially visited Pelias and Calliope in the company of their elderly father, had been welcome new acquaintances as they were in Katie’s own age group.

For the first time in a long time Katie was in a position to enjoy a social life, and she was trying to push herself out and about to do exactly that. She was also planning to look for a part-time office job, to ease her back into the swing of working life. The breathtaking speed of change over the past weeks, however, had challenged her more than she had expected.

She had finally picked up the courage to phone her mother in New Zealand and tell her about the twins. The news that she was a grandmother had come as a shock to Maura. Although she had been hurt that her daughter had not confided in her, she had phoned Katie back a day later to ask a flood of questions about the little boys and request some photos of them.

Although Katie was now free of any immediate financial or accommodation woes, she was suffering from shamefully low spirits—which she did her best to conceal behind a cheerful smile. She felt that a job would give her a fresh focus. If she got back into the employment market she would start earning some independence again. Was she planning to live as some sort of kept woman on Christakis largesse for ever? No way. And perhaps a return to the workplace would give her something better to think about than the fact that she missed seeing Alexandros. That intense sting of loss wasn’t getting any easier to bear with the passage of time. He had been abroad a great deal on business. He had also contrived to visit the twins on three separate occasions when she was out; what contact they had enjoyed had been bereft of privacy and distinctly edgy in tone.

Only a week had passed since Katie had moved in to the stunning fully furnished apartment which Alexandros had organised for her. It was infinitely larger, fancier and more centrally located than she could ever have envisaged. Alexandros, however, had dismissed her protests with the declaration that his sons had a right to benefit from every possible advantage and comfort.

‘I guess the rumours about you and Alexandros Christakis must be true.’ Damon Bourikas allowed that provocative statement to trail in the air while they wandered round the gallery exhibits.

Wishing his sister had not drifted off, leaving them alone, Katie tensed.

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