Assignment: baby?Jessica had tried hard to play down her attractiveness at work. She wasn't interested in office affairs, or so she thought until company boss Bruno Carr personally assigned her to work closely with him on a major lawsuit .Jessica knew she'd won Bruno's professional respect. She a...
Rain slashed down against the window-panes, a harsh, clattering noise for which Julia was immensely grateful, because without that background din the silence between them would have been unbearable. Towards the end she gave him terse directions to her house, which he followed without speaking. By...
To be perfectly honest, I could have handled everything with my banker and the estate agents by phone or e-mail. There was no real need to travel down here to London, but…’ Those intent blue eyes could make a girl think she was drowning, Sara thought. ‘But you just couldn’t resist the desire to f...
Alex wouldn’t be going anywhere. Firstly, she didn’t know the layout of the house and, secondly, she would never want to risk the deluge of questions that would be raised should she be discovered bunkering down next to Luke in the room next door. She had expected the worst and, having been shower...
CHAPTER TWO ‘HE’S awful. Arrogant, overbearing …’ Lizzy yanked on one knee-high boot and glared at her reflection in the mirror. Lounging on the bed, fully dressed, fully made-up, and looking as though she had just stepped out from the centre of a magazine, Rose caught her eye and smiled. ‘He can...
After a hearty breakfast, the like of which he had not tasted since he had been a teenager with an insatiable appetite and an abundance of free time that could be apportioned to satisfying it, he found himself with a checklist of things to do, which he was pretty sure Bethany had compiled with a ...
In the space of a second or two, Vicky accepted that fate had just been playing games with her ever since she had accepted the job, waiting for this very moment to evolve so that she could have the last laugh. She watched the scenario unfolding in front of her and realised that there was nothing ...
The outing on the lake had taken much longer than she had thought and then, despite its dramatic conclusion, Giancarlo had insisted on stopping somewhere for them to have a very late lunch. To add insult to injury, he had proceeded to talk to her as naturally as though nothing had happened betwee...
And a text message from Delilah. The text message, with all those abbreviations which Rafael found so annoying, informed him that she had been away—an extended holiday in the Caribbean—but that now she was back and would love to meet so that they could catch up. Once a rel...
She had a few seconds of intense disorientation and then memories of the afternoon before broke through the barrier of forgetfulness and began pouring through her head. She had no idea how she had managed to get through what remained of the day, how she had managed finally to get to sleep. ...
Instead, she had held back her obvious disappointment and had listened to his excuses without comment. Meetings had overrun. An urgent call had come through just as he had been leaving the office. Inevitable Friday traffic. Leo had kept the excuses brief, knowing that his mother would never actua...
The force of his craving slammed into him with the unstoppable power of a runaway train. He seriously couldn’t remember the last time a woman had provoked an urgent response like this. Was it true that variety was the spice of life? Had he become too accustomed to that Western view of beauty whic...
She’d expected something modern and austere, perhaps a penthouse suite in a renovated building with thick white carpets to drown out the noise of an eight-year-old child, whom she imagined wandering forlornly amid the luxury, searching for places to hide from a largely absent father. But when the...
Not a problem. I still have so much work to do, anyway! You wouldn’t believe it! Plus I’m going to take the opportunity to catch up with some of my frie…’ ‘Jennifer, shut up.’ ‘How dare you?’ ‘You need to do exactly what I say. Get dressed in some warm clothes, come out of your cottage and head f...
Lucy had missed her usual tube, had had to wait twenty minutes before she could get on the next one, and when she had managed to squeeze into a compartment had had to spend the entire thirty-minute journey hanging onto the pole by the door so that she was constantly buffeted by people getting in ...
Meeting prospective clients. Working with the advertising people on ways of making the apartments irresistible to professionals who would rather live north of the river. And have I told you about the ideas we were throwing around for renting out one of the rooms off the atrium as a restaurant? Ma...
The house she rented was not in a particularly terrific part of East London, but it was affordable, public transport was reasonably convenient, and the neighbours were nice. You couldn’t have everything. Before the doorbell could buzz again and risk waking Oliver, who had only just been settled a...
From the very first second he had learnt that the cottage had been willed to her, Angelo had been determined to make sure that he got it back, one way or another. His preferred route would have been to haul her through the courts and watch as a legacy to which she had no right crumbled and fell a...
For the first time since she had started working for Ryan Sheppard she was running late due to an unfortunate series of events which had culminated in her waiting for her tube to arrive, along with six-thousand other short-tempered, frustrated, disgruntled commuters, so it seemed. Wrapped up agai...
So let me get this straight. You’ve now got yourself a clothes allowance, no limits, and you’re going on a date with my boss.’ ‘It’s not a date,’ Tess said irritably, but she was only half concentrating on Claire who was lounging fully clothed in a tight green dress with high heels—also green. Cl...
The first thing Aggie did was to telephone the school. As luck would have it, it was shut, with just a recorded message informing her that, due to the weather, it would remain shut until further notice. She didn’t know if it was still snowing in London, but the temperatures across the country wer...
This was her routine every time she stayed the night at his apartment. Sex, and a great deal of it, then a pleasantly fractured night’s sleep during which one or the other might reach out blindly and their bodies would fuse, even though they might both be half asleep, and in the morning while he ...
During the interim, Destiny immersed herself in the company, had daily meetings with various members of the board to discuss flow charts, saw Derek twice, had dinner with Stephanie several times and generally busied herself with anything and everything that could take her mind off Callum. To a ce...