you, so do you.’
She sensed some of the tension slip away from him and, though his lips twitched, he didn’t respond to her comment.
‘You know, I think we can do a little better than that park bench.’
Although the physical contact had disturbed her she felt a twinge of regret when he released her hand. She tried to gather her straying wits. ‘What do you mean…?’
‘I mean I have a suite at the Hall Hotel.’
He would, of course—staying in anything less than a five-star hotel would obviously be beneath his dignity, and the Hall was the only five-star hotel in the area.
‘That’s you sorted, then.’
Nikos gave a heavy sigh and looked impatient. ‘Theos, you are hard work,’ he observed tersely. ‘We’re both tired…’
‘Which is no excuse to snap.’
A nerve in his lean cheek began to pump. ‘So kind of you to remind me of my manners.’
‘I get the feeling that doesn’t happen too often.’ More’s the pity, she thought, sending him a sour look.
He signalled his disapproval of the interruption with the faintest twist of his lips. ‘I was about to say that I’m quite willing to take your extreme reluctance to accept my help as read? It will save a lot of time and frayed tempers in the long run. If anyone asks I’ll swear you fought me tooth and nail. You hate me, I’m arrogant, you’d prefer to sleep on a park bench…blah…blah…’ he drawled.
She shot him a look of intense dislike. ‘I know this confirms my boring predictability, but I would prefer to sleep on a park bench!’ she declared.
‘Well done!’ he congratulated her. ‘The first step in correcting our faults is accepting you have a problem.’
‘Once you go away I won’t have a problem.’ If you overlook my penniless and homeless condition. Heavens, what was she going to do if he took her at her word…?
‘Don’t make a song and dance about this. You can’t stay here, you have no money. I, on the other hand, have—’
‘Too much money.’
‘Some people might think so,’ he conceded, ‘but actually I was thinking of a spare bed and a taxi which should arrive any moment.’
‘Spare bed?’
‘Sorry if you thought otherwise, but it has been a long day…’ he explained apologetically.
Katie blushed fierily at the silky innuendo in his voice. She gathered the jacket and her dignity around herself as best she could.
‘You won’t know I’m there,’ she promised grimly.
Nikos regarded the top of her dark head with a twisted smile. ‘That I very much doubt, agape mou,’ he drawled.
She pretended not to hear the endearment.
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