Escape Me Never – Sara Craven

He brightened. ‘Hey —maybe she’ll get a bad prawn in her cocktail. I had one once, and I thought I was going to die, I can tell you.’ ‘You did tell me—several times,’ Cass gave him a reluctant grin. ‘But it’s a nice idea—and then we could get nice, harmless, amenable Tracey back.’ By the time Serena returned resplendent and glowing from lunch, and whatever had preceded or followed it, they had finished. And Serena, as she soon made clear, was in the mood to be pleased.

‘Oh, that’s much better,’ she exclaimed as she read the new lines. She gave Cass a patronising look. ‘So, you can do it, Ms Linton, when you try. This is infinitely superior to your earlier efforts—so much more drama, so much more depth—and—and erotic intensity than before.’ Cass’s brows lifted. ‘I thought we were writing a popular scent commercial,’ she said. ‘Not the remake of Gone with the Wind.’ Towering above his companion, Rohan gave Cass a grim look, but before he could say anything, Tony Gregory hastily intervened.

‘Well, how about a run-through to make sure the moves are absolutely right. Serena—if you’d like to change.’ They all began to move off, to make final adjustments to the set, and prepare for the next take. Cass was left alone with Rohan. He said softly, icily, ‘That beautiful mouth is going to talk you into real trouble one of these days, Ms Linton.’

She said wearily, ‘I think I already have all the trouble I can handle. But not having to see you again will be one load of mischief the less.’ His eyes narrowed. ‘How’s Jodie?’ ‘Very well, thank you,’ she returned levelly. ‘No more bad dreams?’ She stiffened slightly. ‘Fortunately, no.’ ‘Another blessing brought about by my departure?’ The hazel eyes held hers, and it was an effort to tear her gaze away.

She shrugged. ‘You said it. I didn’t,’ she returned shortly. He said, ‘James and Simon have been asking about her. It’s getting close to Easter. My sister was wondering whether you would let her invite Jodie down to Graystocks for a few days.’ ‘That’s out of the question,’ Cass said sharply.

‘It doesn’t have to be.’ His mouth curled slightly. ‘After all, under other circumstances you might both have been spending Easter in the country with me.’ With a calmness that was far from genuine, she said, ‘I don’t think so. I’m sure you’d have been tired of me by this time.’ She paused. ‘Besides— you have a prior commitment—to Miss Vance.’ ‘How good of you to remind me,’ he drawled. ‘I also, if you remember, made certain promises to your beautiful daughter which I am anxious to redeem.

And what I said to you before still stands, Cass. The child needs masculine company.

“You said you’d leave me alone.” Rohan’s eyebrows rose. “I said I’d transfer my attentions where they’d be appreciated.” He paused meaningfully. “I think your daughter appreciates them, don’t you? Words are your metier, Cass. Didn’t your trained ear tell you I was being slightly ambiguous in what I said?” “No! Obviously I underestimated you-yet again, well, I don’t want Jodie to think these outings are going to be a regular occurrence.” Cass rounded on him. “And we don’t need your amateur psychology either.

If you feel Jodie is lacking men’s company, then I’ll do something about it. I don’t need your interference.” “Don’t tempt me to tell you what you do need.” Rohan’s voice was soft, but the glance which raked her was insinuating. She’d been out-maneuvered, she realized angrily. And now it was two against one! SARA CRAVEN writes consistently strong stories, which makes her one of our most popular writers in the Harlequin Presents line.

With her fresh approach and polished style, she is a constant delight to romance readers everywhere. Harlequin Presents first edition April 1986 ISBN 0-373-10872-9 Copyright © 1985 by Sara Craven CHAPTER ONE It had begun to rain. Cassie felt the first icy drops, as she waited on the edge of the pavement, and grimaced inwardly with irritation.

She’d left the flat so hurriedly that morning that she’d failed to bring either an umbrella or even a scarf, and a heavy shower oh her newly washed, carefully blow-dried and disciplined hair was likely to restore it to its usual riot of tumbling waves. Clearly, it was going to be one of those days. Her radio alarm had gone off early, tempting her to the luxury of ‘just a few more minutes’, with the result that she’d fallen deeply asleep again. And Jodie, usually the most amenable of children, had suddenly exhibited disturbing signs of a reversion to the panicky, hysterical tempers of a few years previously.

‘You haven’t forgotten it’s open afternoon at school, Mummy,’ she said, as Cassie dashed between toaster and kettle. ‘Miss Willard asked specially if you were going to be there.’ Cassie concealed her dismay at the reminder. Yes, it had slipped her mind, like so many other things did these days, she thought glumly, resentment rising within her at Jodie’s reference to her headmistress. Her school was well-run, and briskly geared to learning, but Miss Willard whose old-fashioned values oiled the wheels, had what amounted to an obsession with working mothers, holding them, Cassie often thought, responsible for most of the ills plaguing modern society.

And the fact that Cassie was a widow and needed to support herself and her child apparently made no difference to her views.

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