In my Bed

KEN.His mother was upset.Ken didnt like his mother being upset. It had taken her a while to get over his father's death and establish a life on her own. For the past few years she been happy, planning overseas trips and going on them with her bridge partner, Joanne Hudgens, a retired school principal who was a natural organiser, a person he could trust to look after his mom on their travels. As misfortune would have it, Joanne had fallen and broken her hip so the tour they'd booked to south east Asia had to be cancelled.He'd spent the whole weekend trying to distract his mother with his company, cheer her up, but she'd remained down in the dumps, heaving miserable sighs, looking forlorn. Now, driving her back to her palm beach home after visiting joyce in Mona Vale hospital, Ken saw she was fighting tears. He reached across and squeezed her hand, trying to give sympathetic comfort. "Dont worry about Joanne. Hip replacement is not a dangerous proc

Nina took a deep, deep breath, let it out slowly, then forced her feet to walk steadily to her desk, no teetering in heels, shoulders back, correct carriage, just as Diane had drilled her. It was good to sit down. She was still quaking inside from the reaction her new image had drawn from Ken Pierson. Diane had confidently predicted it would knock his socks off but Nina had believed he would probably look at her blankly for a few seconds, dismiss the whole thing as frivolous female foibles, then get straight down to business. Never in a million years would she have anticipated being attacked on it. Nor looked at so... so intenselyIt had been awful, turning around from the hatstand and finding those piercing blue eyes fixed on her breasts. Her heart started galloping. Even worse, she had felt her nipples hardening into prominent nubs which she was pretty sure was visible underneath the snug cashmere sweater she wore.She'd clipped out a quick greeting to get