the issue. “I guess it might look that way,” he said slowly, “but…my back’s to the wall, Maxine. There are complications you know nothing about.”
“Go on.”
“Not now. Look.” He hauled out his checkbook. “Let’s be businesslike about this. I want to hire you for a maximum of…say, one month? That should be enough time to do what I have to.”
“Hire me?” She couldn’t believe what she was hearing.
“That’s right. I’ll pay you ten thousand dollars now and another twenty if we pull this off and I get my inheritance.”
She gasped. “What makes you think I can be bought?”
“You’re out of a job, right? Besides, I don’t want to buy you. I just want to rent you for a little while. What do you say?”
“Give me a minute to think.” She pressed her palms to her temples. “If I do this—and I’m not saying I will—there will be absolutely no sex.”
His expression said he had absolutely no interest in her that way. “No sex. Agreed.”
“Put it in writing.”
“Sorry, no can do. You’ll have to trust me on that.”
“Why should I? Why should you trust me?”
He eyed her solemnly. “Maxine,” he said slowly, “I always go with my first impressions. My first impression of you is that you’re a woman who can be trusted. I liked the way you handled yourself on that airplane and the way you stood up for yourself when we had to share that room. As Great-grandpa Taggart would say, ‘Girl, you got spunk!’”
She couldn’t return that smile. “I suppose your first impressions are always right.”
“I wish. Sometimes you just have to go on faith.” He put out his hand. “Is it a deal?”
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