Mountain Man
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She laughed, moving away. “I’ll wear it to church every Sunday,” she promised without really looking at him.
He cleared his throat. The contact had affected him, too. “I’ll wear mine to board meetings, for a lucky charm,” he teased gently. “To ward off hostile takeovers.”
“I promise it will do the job,” she replied, and grinned.
Her father came back to the living room, and the sudden, tense silence was broken. Conversation turned to politics and the weather, and Niki joined in with forced cheerfulness.
But she couldn’t stop touching the orchid brooch she’d pinned to her dress.
Copyright © 2015 by Diana Palmer
ISBN: 9781459294752
Mountain Man
Copyright © 2016 Diana Palmer
First published as Woman Hater in Great Britain 1987 by Mills & Boon, an imprint of Harlequin (UK) Limited
This edition published 2016
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