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Angelo settled his chillingly intelligent gaze on her ‘We have an agreement and you won’t walk away from it until I choose to set you free You can’t insult elo didn’t answer her He walked out without another word Snatching in a sustaining breath, she studied the door with the busted lock Her legs feeling wobbly, she sank down on the bed He had gone and, instead of being over the ely abandoned Had he left to take advantage ofand coritted She hated hiht it possible to hate anyone so much Indeed she had not realised that she had it in her to loathe any living being with such venom That he should refuse even to be faithful was the ultilad she had come clean and told him that she was in love with someone else That had offended hied to him? How dared he? Yet when he came close or touched her she couldn’t say no to him and he knew it Indeed he knew his oer so well he had thrown it in her face

Hastily Gwenna stifled that disquieting train of thought Her attraction to hiot the better of her self-discipline, she reasoned painfully An irrational chemical reaction Had she contrived to lie there like a stone statue he would’ve been a lot less keen

She glanced down and belatedly realised that she was still wearing the watch and that she had actually worn it in the bath In guilty consternation, she exaed up the face Had he noticed? She hoped he hadn’t assue it…The diamond watch that sithout a lifebelt Maybe she would take a haelo mused, his handsome mouth set in a bloodless line as his liave her Nor did she appreciate anything Not the house, the garden, the clothes, the fabulous lifestyle that he had created for her benefit Yet when had he ever ht have wondered, was the punishhter? Eyes hot as a bonfire, Angelo knocked back a brandy and savoured his misfortunes Indifferent to the luxury that he offered, she preferred dressing like a trah the soil in all weathers He was the cruel bastard who had marooned her in a city mansion to be waited on hand and foot

That distance he had sensed within her? Oh, yes, there was very good reason for that distance Although she was sleeping inhis bed, it was in body rather than spirit because she loved another elo as a deeply unnatural, distasteful and indeed outrageous state of affairs

He was astonished at how bitter, affronted and cheated he felt No woman had ever had that effect on hiarded hi to take on a twist and rebound on hiet about her What elo wanted very badly to ss In an ihtclub There was a hell of a lot of other woelo attended a board ot drunk the night before, soer Once he had learnt that his father had had a problem with alcohol, he had been ultra careful to monitor his consumption and he was annoyed and disturbed by his lack of discipline

Gwenna was out in the garden when Angelo called her at noon

The dark timbre of his deep voice vibrated down her spine and her tuulf her and she tensed as though she had been slapped No ed a bold passage into her thoughts ‘Yes?’ she prohtly

‘I’elo told her smoothly

Her bright blue eyes widened in disht—’‘Why not?’ Gwenna had no intention of cancelling her night out with Toby ‘I’anise it’ With difficulty Angelo haltered his temper that was on a short fuse after the events of the past twenty-four hours ‘I want to see you this evening’ ‘But I can’t alter the arrangement—this particular friend won’t be available another tiender is the friend?’ She stiffened ‘I don’t have to answer that—’ ‘You just did’ ‘He’s a friend…okay?’ Gwenna fired back, sudden guilt coht off How elo Riccardi? ‘I’ll hast at that suggestion ‘No way! I’ht You can’t expect me to be available twenty-four hours a day!’ ‘I do’ ‘I’ll start toelo was not in a reasonable mood Refusal rarely came his way