Chapter Five
“Could you take a week off work?” Matt asked.
They were having dinner in a cozy little restaurant, Matt’s favorite.
“Well,” said Elizabeth, “I guess, with enough notice. Things are fairly settled at the office right now. Where do you want to go? I hear Hawaii is very nice this time of year.”
“We’d stay here,” said Matt.
“What for?”
“I have a notion,” said Matt. “Why don’t you make the arrangements with your people? I’ll tell you the plan nearer the date.”
“Is it going to be sexy?”
“It will be for me,” said Matt. Elizabeth loved the note of menace in his voice. It gave her a tingle in the pit of her stomach.
In the week before her scheduled absence from the office, Matt was at his most attentive and charming. They dined out, they went for walks, he accompanied her on a
