The Four Seasons Collection by Milly Johnson

Author:Milly Johnson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
Published: 2013-03-07T00:00:00+00:00

When Anna reached home, she found a small packet on the doorstep. She huffed and ripped it open to find it contained a tiny black thong. She opened the door and threw it on the hallside table.

Chapter 68

To say that Anna was nervous that Saturday evening as she waited for her car was the equivalent of saying that the ‘sun was a bit hot.’ What the heck did he have to give her? Whatever it was was secondary to the fact that she was going to see him again. The anticipation was killing her. She had paced a furrow in the hall carpet by the time she heard the car pull smoothly up outside her front door.

She dropped her house keys twice while she was locking up, and attempting to laugh off her butter-fingers to the Romanian driver with the sense of humour bypass didn’t help her confidence levels.

Vladimir was waiting for her outside his house, his legs astride, his arms folded over a Nehru-collared long, open jacket that made him look sexily authoritarian. She gulped as he presented his hand to help her out of the car. It was the heart-touching hand.

‘Anna, how nice to see you again,’ he said. God, he was so gallant. The most gallant thing Tony had ever done was tell her that he wouldn’t climb over her to get to Angelina Jolie if they were all in bed together. Then he had spoiled even that by asking her if she thought she might fancy a threesome in the future. Anna said that quite categorically she didn’t. Besides, the way Tony’s brain worked, she wondered if given the chance, he’d pick two other birds and leave her standing outside.

They went inside Darq House. Anna was thrilled to see it again. Luno came stalking over, his tail whirring like a helicopter blade, and pushed his muzzle into Anna’s hand.

‘Hi, boy, I’ve missed you,’ she whispered to him. Luno stayed for a pat, then returned to his basket, slumping down but keeping his eyes on his master who was pouring two goblets of wine, one of which he handed over to Anna.

‘Noroc!’ he said, which she took to mean ‘Cheers!’ and repeated the word back to him before taking a sip. It was very nice for virgin’s blood. No wonder vampires were always thirsty.

‘Anna, next week it is the Balul Lună Plină.’

‘The what?’

‘A Full Moon Ball. I hold it here in Darq House.’

‘A ball?’

‘Yes.’

‘Here?’

‘Right. You will be coming, of course.’

‘Me?’

‘Yes, Anna.’

‘A ball?’

‘Yes. I want you to come.’

A thought crossed Anna’s brain, carrying a long dark shadow with it.

‘It’s not one of those surprise things, is it? Jane’s not going to turn up and ask me to model naked up a specially-built catwalk?’

Vladimir smiled. Just out of one side of his mouth. His eyes twinkled. They were so not contact lenses, as she had once suspected. ‘No, no tricks, you will be in a dress as a guest. An honoured guest of mine.’

‘Oh God, I haven’t got a dress posh enough for anything like that.

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