The Trouble with Valentine’s

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Author: Kelly Hunter
you’ve certainly never been given a gift on Valentine’s Day
. He could have said that too. Instead, he’d gone with ‘How do you know all this?’ and shamed her anyway.
    ‘I see what people do,’ she offered tightly. ‘I know what’s expected. Just because—
    Just because she’d never had a proper boyfriend and barely knew kisses …
    ‘Just go,’ she said.
    But Kai had never been one to take orders – at least, not from her. He stood there watching her; so many secrets behind those beautiful black eyes. Kai had been her bodyguard for eight years now, ever since she was eleven, and there’d never
not
been secrets in those eyes.
    Nicholas Cooper’s laughing blue eyes had been refreshingly devoid of secrets.
    Well … except for the fact that he had a
wife
.
    ‘It’s not a Valentine’s Day date,’ Kai offered finally. ‘I don’t have a Valentine. I’m not buying flowers. I’m going to watch a martial arts demonstration. Wing Chun style versus Aikido.’
    ‘Oh.’ The bean shoots were burning. Jasmine turned down the heat and gave the food another stir. ‘May I accompany you?’
    ‘It’ll be hot and crowded.’
    This was Hong Kong. It often was. ‘I don’t mind. I wouldn’t treat it like a Valentine’s Day outing, or anything. I mean—that’s not how I think of you. At all.’
    Much.
    Kai just looked at her and then with a flicker of something in his beautiful black eyes, he looked away.
    ‘No, Jasmine,’ he told her quietly. ‘The answer’s no.’
    Hallie’s bedside phone was ringing. She rolled across the bed, arm outstretched, groping wildly. Because no way on earth were her eyes going to open at this hour. She’d spent most of last night watching bad action adventure movies with Tris. She’d planned on a ten a.m. wake-up time, minimum. It wasn’t ten a.m. It was still dark, not even dawn. She found the phone, found her ear. ‘‘Lo,’ she mumbled.
    ‘Can you get some time off work this afternoon?’
    ‘Nick?’
    ‘Yes. Nick.’ He sounded impatient.
    ‘Couldn’t this have waited till morning?’ she mumbled.
    ‘It is morning. Were you still in bed?’
    Hallie slitted her eyes open to glance at the glowing red numbers of her bedside clock. Five-fifty! A.m! Ugh, he was a morning person. The notion was going to take some time to digest. She held the receiver to her breast and took severaldeep breaths before putting it back to her ear. ‘Nick, it’s the weekend. I have one day off a week and this is it and there’d better be a good reason for this call. What do you want?’
    ‘To let you know we have an appointment at Tiffany’s at two this afternoon to get your rings.’
    ‘Rings?’ Hallie’s eyes snapped open. ‘Tiffany’s? As in Tiffany and Co. the jewellers?’ She was wide awake.
    ‘Wedding ring, engagement ring. It’ll be expected. The manager of the store on Old Bond Street’s a friend of mine; he’s going to let me borrow some pieces,’ said Nick. ‘After that we’ll go shopping. You’ll need suitable clothes as well.’
    Shopping for clothes? This coming from the lips of a man? ‘You’re gay, aren’t you?’
    ‘No,’ he said, with a smile in his voice that curled her toes.
    ‘Cross dresser?’
    ‘Nope.’
    ‘Have you been drinking?’
    ‘Nor am I drunk.’ Exasperation in his voice this time, giving her toes a chance to relax. ‘The way we present ourselves in Hong Kong is going to be important and I’m guessing there’s nothing in your wardrobe that’s suitable.’
    ‘Suitable how?’ she snapped as visions oftailored suits and pillbox hats floated through her mind. ‘You’re going to dress me up like Jackie Kennedy, aren’t you? You’re having make-over fantasies!’
    ‘I wasn’t until now.’ The smile was back in his voice; yep, there went her toes. ‘And I’m not thinking First Lady exactly but we can’t have you looking like Marilyn Monroe either.’
    She should have been insulted. Would have been except that this was a sex
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