Bad Heir Day (31 page)

What she wanted was someone who could control Zak to the standards of the strictest schools whilst being completely without charm for Jett. What we need, she thought, is a battleaxe. A nanny of the old school. Of the old
everything
.
Damn. She could have
sworn
she’d met one of those lately…

What we need, thought Jett, is someone who will be as firm as a goddamn Gucci heel with that brat. Someone who will put the fear of God into him and give the goddamn little sod the hard time he deserves. Christ, but his memory was bad. He was
sure
he had seen the fear of God in Zak’s eyes recently, but goddamn it if he could remember where. He had a vague memory of someone very big and frightening looming out of the shadows…

“Do you think,” Cassandra said suddenly to Jett, “that we could somehow persuade—”

“That old nanny of Jamie Angus’s?” finished Jett. They looked at each other in wild—and in Cassandra’s case reflected—surmise.

In the back, Zak, who had suddenly tuned into the conversation, yelped in terror.

“Don’t worry, darling,” Cassandra beamed, turning round. “Everything’s going to be all right.”

Krestine Havemann

Wendy Holden was a journalist for the
Sunday Times
,
Tatler
, and the
Mail on
Sunday
before becoming a full-time author. She has now published nine novels, all top-ten bestsellers in the UK, and she is married with two young children. Her novels include
Beautiful People
,
Farm Fatale
,
Simply Divine
,
Gossip Hound
,
The Wives of Bath
,
The School for Husbands
,
Azur Like It
, and
Filthy Rich
.