The Boss's Forbidden Assistant (Mills & Boon Modern) by Clare Connelly

Author:Clare Connelly [Connelly, Clare]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Mills & Boon Modern
Published: 2023-07-01T18:50:11+00:00

CHAPTER NINE

HE DROPPED HER hand when they stood and left the hotel bar, but once they were in the lift their hands brushed and his fingers sought hers lightly...seeking reassurance? Or looking to give it to her, more likely, because Salvador wasn’t the kind of man who’d need reassurance.

Except Harper felt the magnitude of this.

Whatever ‘this’ was.

It was new territory for both of them, and she barely wanted to exhale in case the sound of her breath knocked them off-course. Now it wasn’t enough to consider Salvador’s concerns, but her own as well, because she’d been running for years from the mistake with Peter, and she didn’t want to make another one. She worked for Salvador, not just for this fortnight but back in Chicago, and she needed to be sure this wouldn’t become public knowledge. She needed to know it wouldn’t change anything for her.

‘Salvador?’ She turned to face him and her stomach dropped to her toes because he was so devastatingly beautiful. When she looked at him, nothing mattered. She’d lose her job. She’d quit. She’d sacrifice almost anything for this one night with him.

But there was her mother to consider, and everything she’d worked for.

‘You were right, the other day,’ she whispered. The lift doors pinged open and another couple stepped in. Harper went to pull her hand free but again Salvador held onto it, his eyes meeting hers, charged with an electrical current. She sucked in a breath, tipping towards something, unable to think clearly.

She didn’t speak until they reached their floor and they stepped into the corridor, walking side by side towards the room. Salvador swiped his key, the door clicked open and Harper stepped inside, her pulse raging in her eardrums.

‘What was I right about?’ he asked, unbuttoning his shirt at the collar to reveal his neck. She tried to move her mouth but found it almost impossible.

She pulled her hair over one shoulder, toying with the ends. ‘My last job, I was involved with someone. My boss.’ She dropped her hands in front of her, wringing her fingers together. ‘It was a very, very bad decision.’ She blinked into his eyes. It felt a little like looking at a solar eclipse.

He moved closer, lifting her chin. ‘What happened with him?’

She chewed on her lower lip. She didn’t really want to bring Peter into this situation. He was part of her past, a part she didn’t like to think about often, except as to the lessons she’d learned from it all. ‘It was a stupid mistake.’

He waited silently.

‘We spent a lot of time together. I liked him. He asked me out on a date, and I knew I should have said no, but it was all so hard—stuff with Mum—and I was lonely. I agreed, reluctantly at first. But it was so good to have someone to talk to, even though, looking back, he did most of the talking.’ She shrugged. ‘I liked not being alone.’ Her voice cracked. ‘But it was all a lie.

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