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‘Where will you hang the seascape?’ Aristandros asked as they left the gallery

‘Where will I hang it?’ she stressed in confusion

‘Are you saying that you are buying it for me?’

‘Why not?’

‘Because I don’t want you buying stuff like that forout cash on me is indecent!’ Ella hissed frantically under her breath as they headed across the pave theatheredtoo close

Her spine rigid, Ella blinked like an ohile cameras went off all around them, and questions and comments were hurled at Aristandros Uppermost were the demands to know the identity of his new coloriously i into the liet used to it!’

‘I’m only here with you because of Callie Contact with her is the only reward I want,’ Ella proclaiful emphasis of the point

The sht, his brilliant gaze narrowing ‘No hteen-month-old baby, khriso mou’

Ella lifted her pale head high ‘Even if it’s the truth?’

‘But it’s not the truth, it’s an outright lie for which you should hang your head in shame,’ Aristandros traded without hesitation, his beautifully shapedwith derision ‘You want o Don’t make the child your excuse’

Ella had lost colour ‘It’s not an excuse I may occasionally find you…attractive, but I wouldn’t have done anything about it’

‘Too spineless?’ Aristandros sent her a contelance ‘I didn’t meet your narrow-minded requirements, so the fact that you wantedto you’