A Paper Marriage. Jessica Steele

to get my hands on—but otherwise I have only what I earn.’

      ‘You’re working?’ he enquired.

      He was unnerving her. ‘I’m between jobs at the moment,’ she answered shortly. ‘I was leaving my job this week anyway, but left early when my mother telephoned last Tuesday and—’ Lydie broke off and could have groaned out loud. Jonah Marriott was a clever man. From what she had just said he would easily deduce it had been her mother who had told her that he had reneged on his debt to her father.

      Jonah did not refer to it, however, but asked instead, ‘What sort of work do you normally do?’