Chapter 160 Three Hours

• Three hours, Matt told himself, as he drove to the Sunday luncheon he couldn’t avoid. Four at most. He should easily manage to pass that length of time with his family without putting a foot wrong with Nicole Redman. He could do a show of polite interest in her work, enough to satisfy his grandmother’s standard of good manners, and spend the rest of the time chatting to his brothers.
• He was not about to make any judgments today. Let Nicole Redman stew in her inadequacies as far as the family history was concerned. He’d brought the photographs and the photocopied plan she’d requested. He’d hand them over to her and that was his bit done. She wasn’t about to seek him out for anything more and be damned if he’d chase her for anything, either.
• What was it...ten days since he’d called her bluff? The gall of her to blame him for her lack of professionalism on the project! Sheer amateursville taking all those tourist photos in the park. No theme, no purpose, just click, click, click. And calling him a hostile force...huh! She hadn’t thought he was hostile while they shared the fruit platter on the veranda.