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Rina shrugged “I had to do so”

“I thought that was the purpose of a holiday? Especially one on a Mediterranean island,” he said with a quirk of one brow

Inwardly, she cringed Sara would never have worked in the garden It wasn’t as if she wasn’t prepared to work hard at the things that interested her, especially her horses, but gardens? She’da relief for her boredoave Rey a bright sarden “Well, you knowI won’t let up”

Rey gave a short laugh “Isn’t that the truth,” he agreed “Come here and let me see you properly I haven’t seen you wear that color before It really suits you Especially with the color you’ve caught in your skin today”

He took one of her hands in his and gave her a gentle twirl—not an easy feat in her high heels on the cobbled path

“There was a stain onher eyes and hoping a telltale flush wouldn’t blotch her chest and neck at the lie

“I’er, ht through her “I like this better The color—” he paused a moment “—isher spine His ever so slight emphasis on the word “you”to wear so that so co that Jacob would have approved of, not so that Sara, in her fla that was uned her hand and pulled her along the path to the car waiting outside the gate and settled her into the passenger seat

She was being fanciful, she rationalized Her own guilt at taking advantage of hi her see things in statements that were silance at him as he dropped into his seat and put on his seat belt He earing sharply creased black trousers that tautened across his thighs as he eased the car into gear Beneath the finely woven fabric she could almost make out the delineation of his quad th a fluid movement beneath the material In normal circumstances, as his real fiancée, she’d have the pal the flex and release of those ine

Her pal about it, and she forced herself to turn her head away and stare out the sideat the scenery as they passed by Sara would kill her It wasn’t part of the plan that she should be so powerfully attracted to hiical sense at all He wasn’t her type He was too…too everything

She tried to pull a picture of Jacob into her mind, to overprint the finely boned features of Rey’s face and his fascinating hazel eyes with Jacob’s fairer skin, broader forehead and pale blue eyes It had only been three weeks since they’d shared that last ether, since they’d ended their plans to ine Rey being quite so civilized if the situation had been his There’d be fire in his eyes, rather than relief that she hadn’t e—demand He wouldn’t havewhen encapsulating the reasons why he’d found it necessary to have a lastnaled the end of the plans they’d so painstakingly ether

No, Reynard del Castillo was a different kettle of fish altogether Rina risked another glance in his direction, and a warh her as hehis attention back to the road

For the first ti about Jacob didn’t hurt anymore and that, despite her initial shock and pain, he’d done the right thing in ending their engagereat deal to be desired, but could she honestly tell herself that a single glance froether—had the power to elicit a reaction like the one still thru if she said yes