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With Heather, it would be different She was anchored in the country He had a rosy i for her s a little too far, but it would really e to down-pedal a bit He didn’t kno much experience she had of city life but he would bet that the closest she had ever come to it would have been on television The simplicity of what she had to offer would be a breath of fresh air Heck, he ain, take her to a play or so, bad world out there

The ured that he needed a restful relationship, at least for the ti What could be more restful than an artist, someone in tune with Nature? And yet wrapped up in such a sexy package that just thinking of her sent his mind further south

Add to that the fact that time spent with his mother and Daniel was infinitely easier when she was in thein accepting the cup of coffee that was even now going slightly tepid He took a sip and ht, that the co machine really did live up to its spec

At the saed with pink, the full breasts…God, when he thought about touching therope under a tee shirt, but stripping her of her clothes and lavishing the those rosebud nipples into hisher moan as he suckled on them…

‘I’m surprised we didn’tthoughts

‘Are you? Why?’

‘You live just round the corner, so to speak I would have expected Katherine to have invited you up to the house for a meal’

‘You mean on a weekend? When you happened to be down?’

Leo didn’t much care for the way she said that—when you happened to be down—but he let it go He was in an extre to jeopardise it over a dodgy tone of voice

‘You weren’t down very often, though, were you? I mean, how often did you visit your mother before Daniel arrived?’

‘I have a lot of work commitments, as I think I’veup to pour hi to the chair, angling it to one side so that he could stretch out his legs He could think of better things to do than talking, now that their differences were settled, but since talking seeht just as well make himself as co tiuy Sure, soain without pain’ He shrugged ‘That’s just the way it is’

Heather knew that all too well That kiss, that ht her off-balance, but she was back in control now She had to be She also had to explain to him why she had pushed him away, and not so much because she was a fair-minded creature who felt some deep need to justify her actions Heck, she doubted Leo West had ever justified his actions to anybody on the face of the earth! If there was one man to whom she need never justify herself, it was him No, she had to explain because she had to hear herself verbalise all the reasons why she would never, ever have anything to do with alittle sides to hili to do

It surprised her that he had taken rejection so well In fact, she was astounded that he had actually agreed to come into the kitchen, have a cup of coffee and hear her out She could only think that he must have the attitude of ‘win a few, lose a few’ Or maybe he was so unaccustomed to any form of rejection from a woman that he felt compelled to hear her explain her behaviour

Heather had no real idea why he had made a pass at her in the first place She wasn’t his type She could only conclude that it was because he was a highly sexed male and he had tuned in to her unconscious fascination with him and interpreted that as availability Available women were the curse of the wealthy ht not be able to just reach out and take whatever he saw and happened to want at that particular point in time, like a kid in a sweet shop with too much pocket money to spend

‘Why did you decide to send Daniel to school here?’ she asked, changing the subject, wanting him to confirm with every sentence why she had been crazy to allow him to creep between the chink in her armour ‘I mean, why didn’t you keep him with you, in London? There must have been hundreds of schools you could have sent him to’

Leo frowned ‘Where are we going with all this?’

‘We’re having a conversation Is there so curiosity about the choices you made’

‘I couldn’t have Daniel in London with me,’ Leo told her abruptly ‘You have to understand that my life there is not tailored for the inclusion of a child’

Heather was nodding She could believe that one, all right