The Miami Millionaire by Dawn Tamayo Page A

was not going to happen.
    “My boss is Ben Churchill of Churchill, Turnbull & French Media Solutions.  He wants your marketing and advertising business for the UK and he has sent me here to get it.”
    “Oh well that certainly is straight to the point.”  Jake said sitting back in his chair.  He hadn’t known what to expect but he hadn’t expected this.  Jake looked at his watch, he had a date later tonight but he was hungry and to be honest he wasn’t that bothered if he went on the date or not.  “I’m hungry, I suggest we discuss this over dinner then.”
    “Jake I thought I …”
    He interrupted her quickly.  There were very few times Jake accepted “no” as an answer, but in his book when a lady said “no”, then she meant “no”.  “Don’t worry Victoria, it’s purely business and nothing else.  I won’t get you into trouble with your fiancé.”
    Victoria blushed nodding, she wished she hadn’t jumped to the wrong conclusion and wondered what Jake must be thinking.
     
    Jake thought for a moment, he suspected another round of photographs of him and Victoria, this time alone together, might prove to make things difficult for her with her lucky fiancé.  Even though he didn’t care what people thought, and he certainly didn’t mind anyone putting him and Victoria together as a couple, he didn’t want to make things difficult for her.  That wasn’t fair, not as far as he was concerned.
    “Hmm, well we can always order room service?”  Jake’s blue eyes sparkled teasingly as he thought how he would love to lock himself away for a night in his suite with Victoria, some food, their bottle of rum and the huge bed just through that doorway.
    “Jake!”  Victoria laughed despite trying not to, she could see he was teasing her and she was desperately trying to keep this strictly professional.
    “Okay, okay.  We eat out then.”  He said standing up waiting for her to join him.  “Victoria, it’s been a long day, I’ve been in meetings for most of it and I am hungry, so we either talk about it over dinner or not at all.  Personally I choose the first option.”
     
    Victoria took stock for a minute, this wasn’t how she had planned it – but then again nothing had gone how she planned it today!  She thought she would only have five minutes maximum with Jake and in that time she was just going to arrange for her boss to present a marketing pitch.  After that all further dealings with Jake would be handed over to Ben Churchill since she would only be allowed to work on an account of that size if her boss authorised it but she certainly wouldn’t be the lead-person.  Victoria hadn’t planned on being roped into going out for dinner with Jake, but she didn’t want to lose this opportunity either, knowing that timing was everything.  Ben Churchill was expecting her to deliver!  Victoria had been told to get this account at all costs and one expensive dinner was definitely the least he would expect her to do.
     
    ““You really don’t take no for an answer do you?”  She stood up laughing.
    “Not very often.  No, not if I can help it.”  He smiled wickedly at her.  “Okay, so where are we going?”
    “Where do you want to go?”  Victoria asked as she walked towards the door.
    Jake watched as Victoria walked in front of him noting the gentle sway of her hips and he knew exactly where he wanted to go right now, but he kept his mouth firmly closed and just smiled.
    Victoria turned around when he didn’t answer and saw a look in his eyes that made her cheeks burn red and her stomach somersault.  Flustered for a moment she stumbled on.  “Do you have a restaurant in mind, or do you want to eat downstairs?”
    “Not downstairs, I’ve eaten here enough recently, let’s go somewhere else.  You choose, take me somewhere I haven’t been.”
    “What type of food do you want to eat?”  Victoria wasn’t sure where you should take a multi-millionaire for dinner.