Having the Frenchman's Baby. Rebecca Winters
you installed in a hotel renowned in the region.”
She shook her head. “You don’t have to go to all this trouble for me.”
“I like to take care of my potential buyers.”
He opened the car door so she could climb inside. She took the greatest care to make sure her skirt wouldn’t ride up her thighs, but before he shut the door his all-seeing glance took in everything anyway.
He leaned in the open window. “Have you forgotten that without wine buyers like you, I wouldn’t have a business?”
That was true.
To her chagrin she’d been so mesmerized by him, she’d almost forgotten she was a woman who fell into the client category.
But he hadn’t.
CHAPTER THREE
ON THE outskirts of Ribeauville, Rachel turned her head in Luc’s direction.
“You live in the most beautiful place on earth.” She drew in a deep breath of the warm June air. “Alsace must be one of the world’s best kept secrets.”
They’d long since checked her out of the hotel and had turned in her car.
The rest of the time she’d been drinking in the passing scenery while Luc gave her a history of the area. He’d enchanted her with a tale of the legend of Thann called the Miracle of the Fir Trees. She could listen to him indefinitely.
He darted her a lingering glance. “At the risk of sounding smug, I admit I feel the same way. I never wanted to be anywhere else but here, or do anything else except the work my father did.”
“How wonderful to have that kind of relationship with him.”
“I was very fortunate.” His arm rested across the back of the seat, as if he needed more room to breathe and relax. His fingers grazed her shoulder. The slightest touch from him whether deliberate or not filled her with yearnings she couldn’t tamp down.
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