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AN IMPERFECT AFFAIR NAT ALIE FOX HARLEQUIN MILLS AND BOON AN I MPERFECT AFFAIR NATALIE FOX CHAPTER ONE ‘You!’ The very male figure seated at a desk by the bedroom window of the old Spanish mill house had turned as Verity opened the door. Their mutual shock at the sight of each other, the stunned disbelief in both their eyes, had erupted with that simultaneous ‘You’. Shocked, Verity gripped the iron handle of the door till her fingers went white, but it was red that flamed through her in a fiery second of realisation. This wasn’t some freak coincidence. This had been arranged! Her violet eyes flashed round the bedroom and in a split second took everything in. Rupert Scott was living here, and working too. A lap-t op computer was on the desk and p apers were strewn everywhere; on the floor, on the bed. They had met twice before, under awkward and embarrassing circumstances, and now this. V erity couldn’t believe the man was here in this remote Andalucían mill house. El Molino, the house her cousin, Stuart, had arranged for her to work in for a month. She’d kill Stuart for this when she got back to England, slowly and painfully . Rupert Scott found his voice before Verity could summon hers. A deep voice she remembered well-it had haunted her enough times since first they had met. ‘What the hell are you doing here?’ he growled. Nothing had changed. His tone was as derisive as ever. He was as good-looking as ever too, though she’d never seen him like this before, so very laid-back in his mode of dress. V erity’ s voice came back in a spluttering rush with a not very original exclamation. ‘I could ask you the same question!’ She had a ghastly feeling that he probably thought this was her idea, as he probably thought their other meetings had been engineered by her. After all, Rupert Scott could be considered quite a catch, in a monetary sense; his personality wasn’t such a snip. The man was cool, aloof, and wretchedly moody. But at least they had one thing in common: neither liked being match made by her cousin. Oh, yes, if Stuart was to step into the room now she would happily garrotte him for this, and she had a feeling Rupert Scott would readily assist her. ‘This is beginning to get boring,’ Rupert grated through tight lips. ‘First the dinner party your cousin arranged for us, then that “accidental” meeting in a Knightsbri dge restaurant, and now this. Can’t you and your persistent cousin take a hint?’ Verity burned with embarrassment. She didn’t want to be reminded about that awful matchmaking dinner party and that excruciating incident in the restaurant when Stuart had hovered over Rupert as he had dined alone, clutching her to his side as if she were a sacrificial offering. Of course he had asked them to join him—what else could he have done?—but he had made it quite obvious that he wasn’t impressed with Stuart Bolton’ s cousin, who was being so determinedly pressed on him at every opportunity . ‘Why are you here?’ she blurted to cover her shock and embarrassment. The ‘arranged’ theory swelled by the second. Stuart and her editor, Alan Sargeant, had set this up for her. A month in a converted mill house in Andalucía. Not a holiday, not in January, for she was here to work, but a change of scene after a bout of flu that had laid her out over Christmas and, as Alan had reiterated, she’d had a rough time after her boyfriend’s death and needed some space and time on her own. This wasn’t on her own, though. Rupert Scott was here and Verit y was inflamed. ‘To work; what does it look like?’ was his sharp retort, which sliced into her fury. ‘Yes, I can see that! I’m not blind!’ she huffed impatiently . ‘But why here of all places? Andalucía, in a remote mill house, miles from anywhere. Why did you have to pick this place?’ ‘Because it’s quiet and peaceful—at least, it was.’ His barbed sarcasm left no doubt he thought her a disruptive nuisance, just as he had at that dinner party and the restaurant. The man didn’t like her and she didn’t like him, and finding each other in the same house was incredibly awful. ‘Is this your house?’ she blurted. ‘Is it yours?’ he countered coldly. ‘Well, this is getting us a long way, isn’t it?’ she spiked back. ‘At least we’ve established this place belongs to someone else.’ ‘A friend of your cousin’s, I was led to believe,’ he drawled and stood up as he did so. Verity thought he was going to come towards her and bodily throw her out, but he folded his arms across his chest and leaned back on the desk. ‘So perhaps you’d better explain your presence here,’ he added. ‘I’m here to work!’ V erity exploded and then suddenly the fizz went out of her as sheer embarrassment swamped her once again. This must look dreadful to him. She actually felt more sorry for him than herself. She dragged a fretful hand through her pale blonde hair. ‘Look, this is ridiculous,’ she said levelly . ‘Stuart arranged for me to come here for a break—’ ‘Did he, now?’ he interrupted disbelievingly. ‘Am I supposed to swallow that?’ Before she could answer he went on, ‘I don’t, not for a minute. I know why you’re here and so do you, so shall we stop pussyfooting?’ Verity’s eyes widened and her mouth opened and shut as if she’d forgotten how to work it. He gave her a grim smile. ‘And don’t come on as if you haven’t a clue what I’m getting at. Yo u’re here to work your sexy charms on me. You’re here to seduce me, aren’t you?’ Rupert Scott accused drily, his eyes glinting with what Verity could only assume to be disgust. She matched his outrage and worked her mouth into a cry of horror. ‘What?’ The very thought, the very idea... She realised that her hand was still fused to the door handle and was aching badly. She let it go and pumped her fist at her side to get the blood flowing again. Slowly , almost wearily, as if boredom had suddenly hit him, he said, ‘Look, dear, you’re a sweet kid but absolutely not my type...’ ‘Don’t sweet kid or dear me!’ Verity bit back. ‘You’re light years from my type too, I assure you. I thought you would have got the message on our previous meetings. As for seducing you, heaven forbid! Some hyper-imaginat ion you have!’ His grey eyes darkened threateningly. ‘Look, I don’t believe for a minute this meeting is pure coincidence. I know exactly why you’re here but you can forget it. No sale!’ No sale! Verity gaped at him, gazing at his shabby black tracksuit. He had a long red scarf draped several times round his throat for warmth, and heavy army-type boots on his feet. At Stuart’s dinner party he’d been dressed formally in a black evening suit and he’d looked strikingly handsome; not handsome enough to impress her, though, and now he didn’t impress her either, just made 1

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