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"How dare you, you petite salope!" Olivia spit out "I was only offeringup his past? His past is gone, Olivia" Adrienne wasn’t aware she was defending hi it "Sorow better and wiser My Hawk has done that You’re just angry because you know he’s not the ardens with you instead of spending the evening talking with ? He and I used to … talk … like that too He’s just teet over it And when he does, he’ll co," Adrienne said calmly "And you know it That’s what really upsets you"

"Old dogs do not learn new tricks, sweet young fool," Olivia sneered

Adrienne flashed a saccharin sive up their old tricks entirely"

"You speak like a woman in love Yet you wouldn’t say his na a penciled brow

Adrienne’s sgest you leave Dalkeith at first light, whether the horses are rested or not You are no longer welcome here Don’t ever come back"

I sure can pick ‘earden

Just as with Eberhard, the boat-deck-tanned playboy elite who’d manipulated her so flawlessly, she’d been a fool for a beautiful illusion The real beauty had to co’s whore … well, what kind of beauty was there in that?

Worse yet was the thought of what she’d been about to do, would have willingly done with the Hawk, if Olivia hadn’t co His pleas had virtually undone her defenses, and she knew full well that had Olivia not interrupted thenificent body, just another one of the king’s whore’s conquests

Maybe it’s not like that, Adrienne Maybe you don’t know the whole story, a small voice in her heart pointed out

Maybe I don’t want to know the whole story, she seethed She clenched her hands until she felt the painful tear of nails in the soft flesh of her palo home, she mourned like a lost child I want Moonie

That’s the only thing that’s worth wanting back there, she thought

She blew out a frustrated breath