The Billionaire's Ruthless Affair. Miranda Lee

flowers?’ he demanded, his face decidedly grim. ‘I hope they’re not from your idiot of an ex, trying to get back into your good books.’

      ‘Hardly. They’re from Audrey. Wasn’t that sweet of her?’

      ‘Very sweet. Look, I have to go out. Family emergency. Hold the fort till I get back.’

      Harriet frowned at his swiftly departing back as well as his brusque manner. She wondered what kind of family emergency. He never talked about his family. Yet she knew he had a father still living, and a married older sister who had two children, a boy aged ten and a girl aged eight. She knew because she’d bought Christmas and birthday presents for them.

      Maybe she would ask him about his family during the long drive north on Friday. And maybe not.

      Friday now loomed in Harriet’s mind as a day fraught with unspoken tension. Life, she decided, wasn’t being very kind to her at the moment.

      But then she looked at Audrey’s flowers and smiled.