The Secret Wife (Triple Trouble) by Susan Mallery

Author:Susan Mallery [Mallery, Susan]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9781460343036
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2014-08-04T00:00:00+00:00

Cole frowned as he opened the large box from the university. “Did we order any books?” he asked Millie.

“I’m on the phone,” she called back. “Give me a sec and I’ll be there.”

He opened the container and stared inside. Under the welcoming letter was an inventory. According to that sheet there were fifty-seven name tags, fifty-seven notebooks, complete with itinerary adjusted to the age of the student, fifty-seven letters to be given to teachers explaining why the children would be missing school and what they would learn at the camp.

Camp? “The science camp?” he asked aloud. “There has to be a mistake.”

He picked up the phone and punched the button for line two. Ten minutes later he hung up, no clearer on what had happened than when he’d first dialed the number.

Millie walked into his office. “What did you want?” she asked, then caught sight of the box. “What’s that?”

“Our supplies for the university science camp.”

Her eyebrows drew together. “I don’t understand. Even with the discount offered, we couldn’t find the money in the budget.”

“My point exactly. Someone paid for the camp.” Pleasure for the children warred with the sensation of being played for a fool. “Was it you?”

“Me?” Millie touched a hand to her chest. “Cole, we’ve been through this. Jeff is very specific about financial donations. You know he prefers to give money. Besides, I would have warned you.”

Her blue eyes held his gaze. There was no reason for Millie to lie to him. She never had before. She preferred straightforward confrontations to subterfuge.

There was a knock on his open office door. Elissa entered the room. “Am I interrupting?”

“No,” Millie said. “What’s up?”

“I paid the bills. I’ve put everything on your desk. If you’ll just sign the checks, I’ll get them in today’s mail.”

Sunlight shone in through the window and highlighted the gold in Elissa’s hair. She wore it up today, a pile of curls on the top of her head. A simple pink sundress left her arms bare and floated down nearly to her ankles. She could have posed for a cameo. Two parts innocence and one part temptation.

He wanted to ask Millie to leave, then lock the door behind her, sweep his desk clean and take Elissa right there, between the computer and the phone. Hard and hot, touching her, kissing her, tasting her until the rest of the world disappeared and all that was left was the fire burning between them.

As quickly as it had occurred, the image disappeared. There would be no moment of passion between them. That part of their relationship was long over. No matter how tempted, he wouldn’t subject himself to that kind of humiliation again. Elissa had made her feelings on the subject very clear. She didn’t like sex; she’d never once been swept away by passion; he didn’t turn her on.

Elissa pointed to the box on Cole’s desk. “What’s that?”

“I was just about to ask you,” he said.

“Me? But I haven’t ordered anything.” She crossed the floor and stared inside.

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