‘Conan!’ She didn’t know why she sounded surprised. She had known he would come. The dog was leaping excitedly up at him, with no regard for his designer tailoring, while Conan, with a face like granite, stood rigidly impervious, his nostrils flaring and his olive skin infused with something almo...
‘Things don’t always go as easily as planned—especially on your first major assignment.’ No, but all she had to do, Riva was finding, to spur on the assistance she might need, was mention the D’Amico name and problems straightened themselves out like creases under a hot iron. Money meant influenc...
‘What are you talking about?’ she queried, with her throat contracting. ‘The fact that your sister was pregnant with another man’s child when she married my brother, and that you knew about it!’ The colour leeched out of Lauren’s face, and for those few moments when she co...
How could she be? Rayne asked herself over and over, as she had been doing since it had been confirmed over a week ago now. She had been taking the Pill. A low dosage one, it was true. But she’d believed it to be a foolproof contraceptive. Apart from which, when she’d made love with King over tho...
Chapter Five SETH wasn’t in when Grace arrived at the office the following morning and she couldn’t have been more relieved. After all her protestations yesterday about not winding up in bed with him, it had taken only one kiss from him to show her that, where he was concerned, she had no more co...
However, after Leon had helped her to clear up the debris and mess caused by the falling tree, it was still a far cry from what it had been when she had arrived. ‘I’ll have to look for somewhere else,’ she accepted defeatedly, trying to sound braver and less anxious than she was feeling as she dr...