The Housekeeper's Awakening

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Sharon Kendrick. The Housekeeper's Awakening

‘Surely there must be somebody else who could do it?’ Carly said

AT HIS SERVICE

The Housekeeper’s Awakening. Sharon Kendrick

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‘But I don’t want anyone else doing it—I want you,’ Luis said. ‘After all, I am the one paying your salary, aren’t I?’

Carly’s hands balled into two fists, because now he had her in a corner and they both knew it. He paid her a generous amount of money, most of which she squirrelled away towards her goal of getting to medical school.

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‘Why are you so reluctant to do what I ask?’ he demanded. ‘Why are you being so damned stubborn?’

For a moment Carly didn’t answer. Would he scoff if he knew that his proposed intimacy scared her? Or would he just be shocked to learn that she had allowed one horrendous experience to colour her judgement—and she’d spent her life running away from the kind of personal contact which most women of her age considered perfectly natural? Someone like Luis would probably tell her to ‘move on’, in the way that people did—as if it were that easy.

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