glowered at him. âDo you mean to tell me that Iâm on a flight in the middle of the night into some godforsaken, snowbound place and Iâm wasting my time?â she raged, not quite sure why the confirmation of what sheâd known before she ever walked out of Trent Studios should upset her so much now.
The man next to her grinned infuriatingly. âOh, I donât see this as a waste of time at all. We can spend the next few days getting to know each other at Trent Langstonâs expense.â
âI do not use my expense account to wine and dine lost causes,â she snapped indignantly. It was beginning to seem that David Morrow was exactly as sheâd imagined him after a week of this ridiculous cross-country hide-and-seek: a nut, a jerk, another obnoxious, immature, egocentric, macho... She ran out of adequate words to depict her rapidly sinking opinion of the thoroughly despicable rogue next to her. She was even more irritated by the fact that her still-skittering pulse had not seemed to register just how much of a louse the man obviously was.
âThen weâll use Morrieâs,â he said with perfect aplomb. âHe dragged us into this. Itâll do him good to spend a little money for a change.â
She gazed at him in astonishment. âYou think itâs amusing, donât you?â
âAmusing?â he repeated doubtfully, then shook his head. âNot really.â He smiled lazily and those devastating dimples deepened.Sheâd never have believed that was possible. âI just think it has endless possibilities. Donât you?â
Lindsay looked into his steady, interested gaze and blinked. When he looked at her like that, he didnât seem like a jerk at all. He seemed incredibly alluring, downright sexy. She sighed. When he sent those little sparks tripping over her nerves, the weekend certainly did have possibilitiesânone of them good for her state of mind and every one of them almost impossible to resist. She clenched her hands together in her lap again and resisted like crazy.
Pretend heâs Morrie, she told herself sternly. That ought to do it.
She glanced out of the corner of her eye. Impossible! They might have some sort of odd-couple business relationship, but this man was definitely no Morrie. Morrie Samuels had beady little eyes, sweaty hands and slick lines that had made her skin crawl. This man was something else entirely and, while he made her nervous as hell, he definitely did not make her skin crawl. He made her tingle from head to toe and that was intriguing but very dangerous.
Well, resist anyway, a little voice muttered back. She did the best she could.
âI do not!â she said adamantly, noting proudly that there was only a slight squeak in her voice. âYou must be out of your mind if you think Iâm going to hang around Denver for no good reason.â She shuddered. âItâs cold there. Record lows, in fact.â
âI live in Boulder.â
âUnless thereâs a fluke in weather systems which the National Weather Service and I are both unfamiliar with, itâs just as cold there.â
âI have a fireplace.â
âIâll just bet you do,â she muttered under her breath. âAnd probably a cozy sheepskin rug in front of it.â
âAs a matter of factââ
âForget it. Iâm spending whatâs left of this night in a hotel room in Denver and then Iâm taking the first flight out in the morning.â
âAnd what exactly do you plan to tell your boss on Monday?â
âThat you werenât interested in a deal, which is just what I told him this afternoon and what, according to you, he has been told several times in the past. It shouldnât come as a big surprise.â
His expression was speculative. âIâve heard a lot about Trent Langston. Do you honestly think heâll be satisfied with that