Sally Wentworth - Set the Stars on Fire by Sally Wentworth

Author:Sally Wentworth [Wentworth, Sally]
Format: epub
Published: 2010-07-27T05:00:00+00:00

`Wait!' Lewis' voice came sharply over the line and Lori gave a small smile of satisfaction. `Look, I want to use my room to shower and change. All your things have been moved from here and sent down to room 327. I’ll have the key sent to you.' He paused, then said abruptly, `And when you're ready I want to talk to you.

I have to go over to Lindos today to look at a site we want to use in the film. We can drive there and talk over lunch.'

Lori gave a gasp at this autocratic command that took it for granted that she would obey him. Indignantly she said, 'What makes you think I haven't got a date for today?'

'Have you?'

She bit her lip. 'As it happens I haven't, but…'

'Phone me at your old room as soon as mine is free. I want to get started as soon as possible.' And he put down the receiver.

Contrarily, Lori took as long as she could to shower and dress; let the man wait, it would serve him right, but when she phoned him at last he merely acknowledged the call and told her to meet him in the foyer in half an hour. Room 327 was filled with sunlight, the heat softly dispelled by the coolness of the air-conditioning. The chambermaid had unpacked for her and all her clothes were neatly arranged in the large wardrobes, but the nicest thing of all was that the room faced the sea. Lori went out on to the balcony and drank in the view. The sky was its usual uninterrupted vastness of intense blue, she hadn't seen a cloud all the time she had been here, and far away on the horizon she could clearly make out the mountains of Turkey, only a few miles away across the sea. It was so close that there used to be day trips there from Rhodes, but now the political situation between the two countries was highly inflammable and she had been disappointed to learn that the excursions had been stopped. Her gaze fell to the gardens and brought her mind back to last night with a sickening jolt. She wondered what Lewis wanted to talk to her about; to throw more in suits at her, probably, it was getting to be almost a regular thing. She sighed and turned back into the room. She supposed she'd have to go with the man; he was still the director of The Siege and therefore her immediate boss.

But, although she told herself firmly that she couldn't care less what he thought of her, something still made her put on her make-up carefully, brush her hair until it shone, and change into a simple, sleeveless, button through dress of cream silk with a wide leather belt that accentuated her tall slenderness. A last critical look in the full-length mirror-another advantage over her old room-and she went to meet him, her heart beating unusually fast and a faint Hush on her cheeks that owed nothing to make-up.

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