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‘I don’t care what she said, hara mou It didn’t happen Ever,’ Leonidas said dryly

‘Oh, azed wide-eyed back at him ‘She let everyone think that you had been lovers’

‘No doubt she liked the attention it brought her, but she didn’t appeal to me on that level’

Maribel nodded like a et her mind round the obvious fact that Leonidas had been more attracted to her than he had ever been to her beautiful cousin ‘But…but eren’t you attracted to her?’

‘She was good fun, but she was also neurotic and superficial’ A frown line pleated his fine brows as if he was engaging in deeper thought as well ‘To be blunt, I knew she wanted me I assumed that that hy you said you weren’t interested when I kissed you—’

Maribel was bemused and momentarily lost ‘Kissed…me…when?’

Leonidas shrugged ‘When I was a student staying in Ien’s house’

‘You enuine pass…not just some sort of a bad-boy joke?’ Maribel sta back almost seven years

‘Is that what you thought?’ Leonidas gave her a wry look ‘You pushedto do Back then, I would definitely have screwed up with you I didn’t knoas going on inside ot in the way as well I realised even then that if she couldn’t have me, she didn’t want you to have me either’

Maribel was hanging on his every word Discovering that Leonidas had been attracted to her that far back, at the saen, transformed Maribel’s view of her entire relationship with him Only now could she see that there had been a definite history between them before they had first shared a bed

‘Reht I told you about my sister? That hen I realised that I wanted you because, afterwards, I didn’t knohat I had been doing there in your roo about all that personal stuff—’

‘Drunk and in Greek,’ Maribel slotted in helplessly

‘But I’d never done anything like that before with a woman’ Leonidas mimicked an uneasy masculine shiver ‘It…it disturbed me that you had this mental pull on me that I couldn’t explain It was too deep and I wasn’t ready for anything deep at the time’