A Love Worth Waiting for And Heaven Knows (2003)
“I can keep this platonic. I can be the friend Noah needs.
He was talking on his phone—it had shrilled while the driver was stowing their bags in the trunk—and it sounded like a business crisis. On the seat beside her, dressed in jeans and an expensive green sweatshirt, he looked like the down-to-earth man she’d come to know so well. But his voice, dark and booming with authority, made it clear he was no ordinary man. He was powerful enough to run a multibillion-dollar company with ease.
“Sorry about that.” He punched off the phone. “I’m heading back to Japan anyway, but now it’s ASAP. I need to get this all squared away before my surgery.”
“You’re going to have jet lag going into the operating room.”
“They’ll give me an anesthetic, and I won’t notice the time difference,” he quipped, because she’d hit a nerve.
Then again, he was already on edge. The way he felt about her was new and overwhelming. He didn’t know what to do about it. Did she love him back?
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