Chapter 31

“Then our bags are still outside in the Range Rover,” she told him pointedly, her expression turning to one of quiet satisfaction as Nicholas’ face creased into a pained grimace. He turned to look out of the window and realized he would have to go back out into the still heavily falling snow to retrieve those bags. “Have fun!” she added tauntingly as she went through the doorway marked ‘private’.

Her smile faded, however, as soon as she was alone in the hallway, and she paused to lean back weakly against the wall. She couldn’t share a bedroom with Nicholas tonight. Possibly tomorrow night too, if the weather didn’t let up. In fact, she trembled just at the thought of it.

Nicholas’ complete dismissal of the significance of the two of them sharing a bedroom wasn’t flattering, either. It had been a while since she’d been attracted to a man… until Nicholas showed up. And slowly that insidious awareness of him had crept into her battered emotions. Even after this trip, she st