page31 (1/2)

Her ht her a case when she asked Ella put on jeans and a T-shirt and packed the few personal iteht from London Then the heavy thud of the front door reverberated through the whole house, and she went rigid

‘Ella!’

Ella gulped at the harsh sound of her name on Aristandros’s lips ‘I’m up here…’

Aristandros filled the doorway, strong features taut, eyes blazing a challenge ‘What in hell are you playing at?’

Ella settled bright-blue eyes on hi at? If you think I’ to stand around while you carry on with other wo!’

‘You don’t walk out on me in a public place…ever!’ Aristandros raked back at her in a tone of fierce condemnation

‘You can tear up the agree you, so all bets are off’

‘You’re all grown-up now,’ Aristandros lanced back with derision ‘You’re not allowed to run ahen things get too hot for you’

‘I’ve never run away fro inlike a da

‘You run fro that upsets you’

‘I’m not upset!’ Ella practically screamed at him

‘This is not the calm, sensible Ella that I know’

‘But you don’t know me!’

A sleek ebony brow listed ‘Don’t I?’

‘No, you don’t!’ she repeated squarely

Aristandros settled scornful dark eyes on her ‘I have to confess that I didn’t expect quite such a hysterical reaction’

‘Who are you calling hysterical?’ Ella threw the demand at him furiously ‘And why the use of that word, “expect”? Are you suggesting that you deliberately chose to flirt with other woet a reaction out of me?’

His brooding gaze locked to her hectically flushed and lovely face, Aristandros spread brown hands in a graceful gesture that neither confir?’