CHAPTER THREE
Conveniently Engaged to the Boss
Jessica Gilmore
For Dan.
Thanks for giving me the time to write
and always believing that I would make it.
I couldn’t have done it without you. x
Special thanks must also go to my amazing critique
group, Jane, Julia and Maggie, for three years of pep
talks, brainstorming and patience, to Merilyn for
making writing fun and to Fiona Harper and Jessica
Hart for all their encouragement and support.
‘YOU CAN COME in, you know. Or do you city folk wear coffee patches and bypass the actual drinking process now?’
Lawrie Bennett jumped as the mocking tones jolted her out of her stunned contemplation of the ultra-modern building clinging to the harbour’s edge. Turning, half convinced she had conjured up his voice along with her memories, she saw him lounging against the arty driftwood sign, the same crooked smile lurking in familiar blue eyes.
‘Jonas?’
No,
