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Angelo heard her sob and he sprang out of bed Outrage powering hiet it out of her systeht

He always gave women in tears the widest possible berth I don’t even like you! ‘Gwenna…’ Angelo reached the bathroo taken a conscious decision to move in that direction and knocked once ‘Open this door’ Her eyes wet, Gwenna sucked in a ragged breath and turned on the bath taps to drown hi louse, all sweet-talk one moment, ice-cold, heartless and utterly immoral the next How could she have just sleepwalked into becoain ‘I want to know you’re okay And I want to know right now ’ Blocking hi left to say to him, Gwenna slid into the warhshurriedly for the soap, she washed with helpless urgency Tears inched down her quivering cheeks and she dashed the? She never, ever cried! Angelo tried the handle one more time and then pulled on his clothes in haste

He kicked the door at the weakest point beneath the lock and it burst open, slaainst the wall She was in the bath, drenched blue eyes enor her and trailing in the water

‘I’m sorry if I scared you but you should have unlocked the door,’ Angelo , Gwenna stared at hi a hened chest Shock was rippling through her He had called her bluff He had kicked in the door She couldn’t believe he had done that She tipped up her chin to snatch a glance at his lean strong face and then hurriedly jerked her head away, out of breath and more tense than ever

Angelo crouched down by the side of the bath ‘Look at ?’ sheknees to chin in the water, naked and cornered

‘I’elo flared back at her ‘Stop cringing…you don’t have to be afraid of me’ Gwenna dropped her head How could she not be afraid? ‘I would never harht about the kind of har effect than mere bruises

Frustration was roaring through Angelo She wasn’t listening to hi hih, he reriot the feeling she was holding back or she was lost in her own little world and he didn’t like either sensation ‘I want to understand why you

blew up over the watch’ Gwenna studied the clear water lapping round her legs and co stuff like that to my mother’ His brows pleated ‘So? He was her husband’ Gwenna was surprised enough to look up again She had forgotten that he had moved down to her level and she collided unwarily with lustrous dark eyes the colour of autuly beautiful eyes that ht in self-reproach What was the ht wo with you?’‘My father wasn’t married to my mother,’ she admitted flatly

Angelo frowned ‘I don’t folloenna reddened ‘Mued on for years and years He was married to his first wife then’ ‘I wasn’t aware that your father had been married twice’ ‘Yeah, well, ould you be?’ Gwenna was mortified by the need to explain the unpalatable facts ‘When Muht he would leave his wife, who couldn’t have children But he didn’t Sometimes we didn’t see Dad for ant pressies My s like that…I don’t’ ‘But your father elo pointed out flatly

‘Muht and I went to live with Dad and he adopted me His first asn’t happy about that and they divorced’ ‘I had no idea’ Angelo was furious that the confidential report he had had done on Hahly relevant details He was astonished by the reality that her mother appeared to have been yet another one of the older le occurred to Angelo than he reminded himself that she wasstill Donald Hamilton’s only child with the taint of his blood in her veins