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‘Everyone has bad days’ His

‘This one was extremely bad,’ she admitted

‘Yet it prompted a party?’ he queried

‘It’s lance at her friends, ere already dancing on the flat, daood time, which was all she wanted

‘A wake?’ the Titan prompted

‘I don’t want to answer anyinto Janey’s roo into theshe could never co she wanted to relive either

‘Fair enough Glad to be of service,’ the Titan drawled

As she filled her eyes with him, her mind raced to work out how she’d reached this point She’d been a scholarship girl, which was how she’d first met Mike’s sister Jocelyn had taken Kimmie home for the holidays, which here she’d met Mike It was no wonder suave, sophisticated Mike had ultirown bored with Kimmie and looked elsewhere She just wished he’d done that before asking her to marry him

‘Don’t let me keep you,’ she said to the Titan

One satanic brow lifted and she guessed he didn’tAnd that posed another question Why had he approached her now? Why Kimmie? She couldn’t bear it if he felt sorry for herif anyone felt sorry for her She’d sort this out herself

Lifting her chin, she said, ‘Can I offer you a drink to say thank you?’ In her peripheral vision she could see her friends setting out the picnic they’d brought with them Their landlady, Kyria De breakfast, and Kio to waste

‘I appreciate your offer,’ he said, ‘but I won’t be able to accept as you and your friends must leave’

‘I’

‘This is a private beach,’ he explained, ‘and you don’t have the necessary permission to be here’

‘And you do?’ she challenged It ht have been a hell of a day, but she wasn’t on the canvas yet, and she had no intention of going doithout a fight Her guests had travelled a long way, only to have the wedding cancelled at the eleventh hour The least she could offer them was a party on the beach

‘Look,’ she reasoned when theany har up e leave’

‘Read the notice,’ he rapped

She followed his stare to a huge red sign proclaieneral public

‘I’m sorry I didn’t see it,’ she ader?’ Her heart thumped wildly as she stared him up and down

‘Let’s just say I’m an interested party’

‘Perhaps you can show me a letter of authority?’ She realised how foolish that request was even as she said it More proof, if she had needed it, that she was only firing on half-cylinders

The lance down his half-naked fra on me at the moment’

She refused to look at his bronzed perfection, and wasn’t in the mood to back down ‘With no proof of your authority, we’re not going anywhere’

The temperature rose between them ‘Just pack up this circus and leave’

‘Is that the type of welcome you’d like me to associate with Kaimos?’

‘You’ll have plenty to remember,’ he flashed back

‘How nice of you to remind me’

His expression reed

‘It would be nice to have soood memories to ed ‘Can’t I say anything to change your mind?’

The man remained silent

‘Are you a a-yacht out there?’ she asked, trying another tack ‘Did you swim to the beach fro under this sort of pressure ‘That floating office block?’ The huge vessel had beenIt was the type of eye-popping craft favoured by billionaires and potentates If he worked for someone like that, she coul

d understand that he’d want to clear the beach before his boss came on shore

‘Crew?’ he queried, frowning ‘Floating office block?’

‘That boat out there,’ she said, pointing

If only her pulse would slon and her ould speed up, she thought as he replied in a clipped tone, ‘I’m not crew And the vessel you refer to is the Spirit of Kaimos’

‘Well, I’m very sorry, but I’ve never heard of it And you still haven’t answered my question Where are you from?’

‘Why is that so important?’

‘It isn’t I’m just curious’

‘As am I,’ he shot back

His lazy gaze stripped her bare and, while her wilful body applauded, her ht I need recovery tier?

All Kimmie had wanted when she came to the seashore was to dance all the bad stuff out of her head Instead she was getting deeper into conflict with a ht he could order her friends off the beach She’d reached her tipping point It was enough to know she’d let everyone down by bringing the to happen, without having soant Titan order them to leave

‘Talk and I ht let you stay’

Kimmie’s jaw firmed and her eyes flashed fire at hier threw her thoughts back to the mistakes of the day She should have seen that Mike’s ros when her exhibition of paintings straight out of college had been such an unexpected success That should have rung warning bells, but Jocelyn was like a sister and Ki and have a fa with her, he’d said Now she realised the only thing he’d actually meant to share with her was the s And now this man wanted to take another bite out of her life?

‘I’ her i ‘Or to be the butt of your anger,’ he added in the same hostile tone