Page 31 of Hate to Crave You

She pursedher lips at the casual, bland question.

I havea revolving door on my office. How is yours?

There was a very brief pause,followed by:

LOL.About the same. Are you ready to do the handoff?

Idly,she thought of the device in her purse and she smiled faintly. With a shrug, she tapped out her response.

I can’t wait.

* * *

A cold windcut through her coat as she stepped out of her car in front of Montrose Jewelers. She smiled at her driver. “I might be a few minutes if you want to circle around the block.”

John nodded and as she started toward the glitz and glamour that was Montrose Jewelers’ flagship store, John slid back in her car.

She’d hoped he’d be out front waiting for her so they could keep this quick, but he wasn’t.

She’d have to go in there and face him.

On enemy territory.

And her heart leaped at the thought of seeing him again.

How could he do this to her?

She’d known beautiful men before.

She’d dated plenty of them.

She had a few of them as lovers.

But none of them had ever made her feel like her heart was going to flip over, just at the thought of seeing him again.

Pasting a smile on her face, she kept on walking.

She’d just have to keep on looking, she decided. There had to be other men out there who could make her heart act like it did around Roman.

The two of them…together?

She laughed and if the sound was a little sad, nobody was around to hear it but herself.