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He backed her up against the old stone wall behind her Fir her off her feet into stirring contact with his erection Seductive sensationand terrifyingly new to her

Suddenly, Angelo lifted his dark head and vented what sounded like an Italian expletive ‘Your dog’s bitten me…’ Momentarily speechless, Gwenna blinked and focused with difficulty on the sight of Piglet growling like elo’s immaculate trousers ‘Oh,down, trerateful for the excuse to lift the little dog up in her arms

‘Inferno! Is that it? No, “Are you hurt? Bleeding? In need of a tetanus shot?”‘ Angelo Riccardi draith icy sarcasm

‘I’m really sorry…are you okay?’ ‘I don’t think I’ll bleed to death And the shots are up to date,’ Angelo said very drily, unable to avoid noticing how the dog was being gently petted and soothed He could have sworn there was a triuy eyes The fever in his blood had ered him What was it about her? He looked forward to the afterer want her

Legs feeling shaky, Gwenna thanked heaven for her pet’s opportune intervention and s, Gwenna straightened with reluctance She was seriously ashah of a hypocrite to tell off her pet Not when she was convinced that Piglet had saved her froelo Riccardi would have called a decent halt He did what he liked when he liked He had hauled her into his are He was violently oversexed Those daunting truths had sunk in on her Her mouth felt hot and swollen and she was afraid to look at hiardens are a wasteland beyond the wall There’s really not anything more to show you’ ‘The ancestral mansion?’ A few e shell of the Regency house where her mother had been born Its ruinous state had eot over the conviction that fate had dealt her a very poor hand In coarded that part of her family’s history with rueful acceptance, for the truth was that her Massey ancestors had been hopeless social climbers who had never been able to afford to maintain the white elephant they had built

‘What’s the inside like?’ ‘A wreck It had to be boarded up years ago for safety’ ‘This is only a flying visit,’ Angelo murmured on the walk back to the nursery

‘I shouldthis afternoon’

Gwenna tensed ‘A is about?’ ‘The fact that he hasn’t given a truthful account of his property holdings’ Her cheeks fla her ‘That’s an out-and-out lie!’ Angelo regarded her with impassive cool ‘I don’t like people asteyour time and he hasn’t lied to you either!’ Her china-blue eyes sparking, Gwenna curled her hands into protective fists by her side ‘You can’t assume he’s deceived you just because he e Leather’ ‘I’m not Your father was told that he had to make a full disclosure of his assets’ ‘And he has done so’ ‘While carefully o details of the other London apartoodness’ sake!’ ‘He’s fortunate to own a second, as there is still a shortfall in the a breath ‘You’ve got it wrong’ ‘I’m afraid not My information about the second town property is froht look of sudden uncertainty and dismay tauten her fine bone structure She could not hide her sorrow He could have told her that her loyalty and affection asted on so undeserving a cause Donald Ha those foolish enough to place their trust in him

Worrying at her lower lip, Gwenna turned her head away because her eyes were stinging with tears Like it or not, there was soelo’s supreht, I really don’t knohat to say’‘Our deal will still stand Your father will sign over the agreed assets and ill draw a line below this matter’ Gwenna sed convulsively ‘In the circuelo s Events wereexactly to plan He ell aware that Donald Hamilton had committed at least one other offence, which would eventually surface When it did, a court case and a custodial sentence would be a virtual certainty By the ti he valued