Untouched By His Diamonds (2012) - Plot & Excerpts
He liked to drive. She had seen that in St Petersburg. They had no room for their luggage, of course. That was coming separately. Clementine had only her handbag, which she jumbled through now, trying to find some of the barley sugar she always carried around with her. Serge glanced at the objects beginning to clutter her lap. ‘What have you got in there? Buried treasure?’ ‘Very funny.’ Giving up on her surreptitious hunt, she just shook her bag’s contents out over her lap. Ticket stubs, a pen, bits of paper, a tissue—all dropped out, fluttered down. She found the barley sugar. And Luke’s two condoms. ‘Going prepared, Clementine?’ She flushed and began stuffing everything back into her carry-all. Then was annoyed with herself for being embarrassed. ‘Luke gave them to me back in Petersburg—for my date with you, if you must know. As if you were going to get lucky on our first date.’ She couldn’t resist adding, ‘You had to fly me to a fancy hotel across the world for that.’ Serge was glad he was doing a low speed and that the car was a fluid machine to guide, because her words had him veering towards the centre of the road.
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