Chapter 12

Well…of course he had a right to enter the library. Caroline was just surprised, having come to the library with the intention of working again that evening, once she had been upstairs to freshen up after they’d returned from town, to find Nicholas had beaten her to it.

She stood in front of the desk to arch her own auburn brows. “Find anything of interest on my laptop?”

Nicholas sat back. “Your laptop?” he murmured slowly. “I thought it was one of the company’s laptops… You know, since you’re here for work,”

Caroline smiled at having at last been able to disconcert a man who was so self-confident he made her want to scream. “I prefer to work with equipment I’m familiar with… And while I do have one of those company’s laptops, I didn’t bring it here with me,”

There it was again, Nicholas noted with a frown. Caroline Anderson liked her life ordered and predictable, even down to the laptop she used for whatever work she happened to be doing. He grimaced. “I had