Episode 10: An adventure

As for the way he reacted when he got a taste of his own medicine back—well, he went up in flames like a rocket! When she emerged again, the entire staff were engaged in wrapping the rest of the purchases. Never had Stella been more grateful to leave a shop.

 

 

'I suppose you want to go in there,' Dior condemned with unconcealed exasperation as he surveyed a busy outlet which sold cosmetics and toiletries. 'No...no, I'll manage fine!' Stella swore in haste. 'Prehistoric man cleaned his teeth with a twig. Maybe I'll pick one up somewhere on the way.'

 

 

Dior dealt her an arrested glance. And then he shocked her. He flung back his imperious dark head and laughed with spontaneous amusement. Stella simply gaped, heart-rate speeding up, pulses jumping.

 

 

His even white teeth flashed against bronzed skin, dark, deep-set eyes gleaming with appreciation. Humour drove all brooding darkness from his lean, powerful face, leaving her bemusedly conscious of just how stunning he was in the looks department.

 

 

'I'm not into shopping,' he confided huskily as if she might not already be aware of that reality. 'Other people usually do it for me.'

 

 

Her complexion uncomfortably warm, Stella dragged her attention from him and studied the floor, but that Mediterranean dark and devastating face were still imprinted in her mind's eye. He was spectacular. That stark acknowledgment, that very thought, seriously unsettled Stella.

 

 

Dior Harlequin wasn't making the tiniest effort to impress or please her. Yet somehow he still made her effortlessly aware of his high-voltage male sexuality. She didn't like that sen‐ station, didn't like the unease and tension he provoked inside her. She might be only twenty-one, but it was over a year since Stella had gone out on a date.

 

 

 

 

Men, she had decided, were a waste of precious time and effort, and she hadn't once regretted that decision. She didn't consider herself a man-hater, but she did get a secret kick out of jokes that suggested the male sex was useless and increasingly surplus to female requirements. After all, by and large, that had been Stella's experience from childhood.

 

 

As Dior urged Stella at speed through the crowded terminal, he rested a lean hand lightly on her taut spine to keep her moving. She stiffened defensively. 'Excuse me,' she heard herself say stiltedly, stepping back, suddenly determined to escape him, even if it could only be for a little while. 'Where do you think you're going?' he demanded.

 

 

"The ladies' cloakroom,' Stella framed with frigid emphasis. 'Are you planning to come with me?' His aggressive jawline squared. ‘I’ll give you two minutes.' Pointedly dumping the carrier bags she was loaded down with at his feet, she began to walk away.

 

 

'Stella...' He extended a comb to her with a sardonic look... 'Maybe you should do something with your hair while you're in there.' Gritting her teeth at the realization that she hadn't taken the time to check her appearance in the shop, and strongly resisting an unusually feminine urge to start smoothing her hair down, Stella vanished into the cloakroom.

 

 

 

 

It was the work of a moment to tame her bright hair back into a straight heavy fall just below her shoulders. She frowned at her reflection, noticing the animated pink in her cheeks, the surprising sparkle in her eyes. The dress had a cool simplicity she liked, but it wasn't her style.

 

 

Her full pink mouth tightening, Stella studied the expensive silver comb he had given her and recalled the ease with which he had accurately assessed her dress size.

 

 

But then that had not been a surprise to her. At twenty-nine years of age, Dior Harlequin was an unrepentant, totally unreconstructed womanizer.

 

 

Naturally, he was, Stella reflected cynically. Men with money and power lived hi a buyers' market of all too willing women.

 

 

Dior was a real babe magnet, and he knew it. He had undoubtedly never had to worry too much about honing the rough edges from his less than presentable manners.

 

 

But, even so, she was to get a free trip to Greece. Private jet, five-star luxury all the way.

 

 

The drawback? Dior Harlequin breathing down her neck. An adventure, she told herself staunchly.

 

 

Even with him around it ought to be more fun than polishing endless floors. Heavens, she realized abruptly, she'd have to ring Watson.

 

 

Tomorrow morning her boss would be expecting her to open up as usual. He never turned in until noon, and when he found the shop still locked up he'd go straight upstairs to her bedsit and hammer on the door, thinking she had fallen ill.

 

 

Regardless of Die's embargo, she had to phone Watson, and as she could hardly tell the older man the truth, she would have to lie to excuse her absence.

 

 

Carefully concealing herself behind a pair of large, gossiping women, Stella slipped out of the cloakroom and lunged breathlessly at the public phone only a few yards away.

 

 

 

 

Dior Harlequin was now standing in the center of the busy concourse, talking on his mobile phone, his attention conveniently distracted. Stella dialed the operator. Since she had no cash on her at all, she would have to request a reverse-charge call.

 

 

But just as the operator answered, Dior, turned his dark, arrogant head. She crashed the receiver back on the hook, but she wasn't quick enough. Dior saw her before she could put some space between herself and the phone.

 

 

Stella froze like a criminal as glittering green eyes locked to her in instantaneous judgment, his lean, strong face darkening as he strode towards her.

 

 

And Stella, who knew all too well what it felt like to be irritated or bored by a member of the male sex, discovered for the first time hi her life what it felt like to be scared...

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Episodes
1 Episode 1: He's getting a witch
2 Episode 2: Murmuring with satisfaction
3 Episode 4: Get off that phone now
4 Episode 5: I'm afraid I can't trust your word
5 Episode 6: Free will
6 Episode 7: I have no desire for a company
7 Episode 8: That wasn't his only problem
8 Episode 9: Put them on
9 Episode 10: An adventure
10 Episode 11: You have betrayed my trust
11 Episode 12: You're a very convincing liar
12 Episode 13: Passion and Sensuality
13 Episode 14: Oh, dear heaven
14 Episode 15: 'Who's the woman
15 Episode 16: I don't like to be boss around
16 Episode 17: He's got a taste
17 Episode 18: Calling me a babe
18 Episode 19: I hate this
19 Episode 20: What on earth was the matter with her
20 Episode 21: Quite extraordinary
21 Episode 22: Did you have a happy childhood
22 Episode 23: Don't you realize that
23 Episode 24: My turn
24 Episode 25: So sweet
25 Episode 26: She couldn't believe
26 Episode 27: Can't talk now
27 Episode 28: It didn't seem to bother him
28 Episode 29: What's wrong
29 Episode 30:
30 Episode 31: Is Grace still employed?
31 Episode 32: I’m going in tonight
32 Episode 33: It's not Okay
33 Episode 34: Who the heck do you think you are to say that to me?
34 Episode 35: I'm not backing off
35 Episode 36: You belong with me
36 Episode 37: You're not supposed to know me!
37 Episode 38: Stop running away
38 Episode 39: I made it my business to know
39 Episode 40: I think I might be pregnant
40 Episode 41: Can I go out on the balcony
41 Episode 42: Trust me
42 Episode 43: I don't want to be your mistress
43 Episode 44: I don't care who I see
44 Episode 45: We're going to be parents
45 Episode 46: What's wrong with tonight?
46 Episode 47: I don't want your money
47 Episode 48: You do deserve her
48 Episode 49: I wouldn't have you as a gift
49 Episode 50: A little amusement
50 Episode 51: One month's notice
51 Episode 52: I saw you kissing him
52 Episode 53: Do...do you love her?
53 Episode 54: Do you love her (2)
54 Episode 55: I make a very bitter enemy
55 Episode 56: You look just gorgeous
56 Episode 57: I wish he'd met you
57 Episode 58: What's wrong?
58 Episode 59: I promise you
59 Episode 60: To make you welcome
60 Episode 61: You are so perfect
61 Episode 62: It's our wedding night
62 Episode 63: She hadn't liked that
63 Episode 64: Then what?
64 Episode 65: Lack of discretion?
65 Episode 66: What do you expect?
66 Episode 67: Don't be slow
67 Episode 68: Would I do that?
68 Episode 69: Rational
69 Episode 70: I don't want you anymore!
70 Episode 71: No! No way was it wrong!
71 Episode 72: What on earth are we doing here?
72 Episode 73: She's a nice person
73 Episode 74: I adore you
74 Episode 75: That's what I'm here for
Episodes

Updated 74 Episodes

1
Episode 1: He's getting a witch
2
Episode 2: Murmuring with satisfaction
3
Episode 4: Get off that phone now
4
Episode 5: I'm afraid I can't trust your word
5
Episode 6: Free will
6
Episode 7: I have no desire for a company
7
Episode 8: That wasn't his only problem
8
Episode 9: Put them on
9
Episode 10: An adventure
10
Episode 11: You have betrayed my trust
11
Episode 12: You're a very convincing liar
12
Episode 13: Passion and Sensuality
13
Episode 14: Oh, dear heaven
14
Episode 15: 'Who's the woman
15
Episode 16: I don't like to be boss around
16
Episode 17: He's got a taste
17
Episode 18: Calling me a babe
18
Episode 19: I hate this
19
Episode 20: What on earth was the matter with her
20
Episode 21: Quite extraordinary
21
Episode 22: Did you have a happy childhood
22
Episode 23: Don't you realize that
23
Episode 24: My turn
24
Episode 25: So sweet
25
Episode 26: She couldn't believe
26
Episode 27: Can't talk now
27
Episode 28: It didn't seem to bother him
28
Episode 29: What's wrong
29
Episode 30:
30
Episode 31: Is Grace still employed?
31
Episode 32: I’m going in tonight
32
Episode 33: It's not Okay
33
Episode 34: Who the heck do you think you are to say that to me?
34
Episode 35: I'm not backing off
35
Episode 36: You belong with me
36
Episode 37: You're not supposed to know me!
37
Episode 38: Stop running away
38
Episode 39: I made it my business to know
39
Episode 40: I think I might be pregnant
40
Episode 41: Can I go out on the balcony
41
Episode 42: Trust me
42
Episode 43: I don't want to be your mistress
43
Episode 44: I don't care who I see
44
Episode 45: We're going to be parents
45
Episode 46: What's wrong with tonight?
46
Episode 47: I don't want your money
47
Episode 48: You do deserve her
48
Episode 49: I wouldn't have you as a gift
49
Episode 50: A little amusement
50
Episode 51: One month's notice
51
Episode 52: I saw you kissing him
52
Episode 53: Do...do you love her?
53
Episode 54: Do you love her (2)
54
Episode 55: I make a very bitter enemy
55
Episode 56: You look just gorgeous
56
Episode 57: I wish he'd met you
57
Episode 58: What's wrong?
58
Episode 59: I promise you
59
Episode 60: To make you welcome
60
Episode 61: You are so perfect
61
Episode 62: It's our wedding night
62
Episode 63: She hadn't liked that
63
Episode 64: Then what?
64
Episode 65: Lack of discretion?
65
Episode 66: What do you expect?
66
Episode 67: Don't be slow
67
Episode 68: Would I do that?
68
Episode 69: Rational
69
Episode 70: I don't want you anymore!
70
Episode 71: No! No way was it wrong!
71
Episode 72: What on earth are we doing here?
72
Episode 73: She's a nice person
73
Episode 74: I adore you
74
Episode 75: That's what I'm here for

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