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After all, she had spent the whole evening with her friend An hour later, he strolled into the chill-out roouy with floppy brown hair Honey-blonde waves rippling down her back, she was simply dressed in jeans and a blue vest top He was torn between satisfaction and annoyance; satisfaction that she hadn’t bothered dressing up for her nored her vast new collection of designer clothes

An unwilling selo headed towards Gwenna and her escort Franco was organizing a table and drinks and the clubat a respectful distance In his readiness to play host, Angelo felt that he was being very civilized, very liberal The dark htening But as his attention lingered on Gwenna he caught the expression on her face as she glanced up at her co warmth of that look was indisputable His lean powerful fra vital tore asunder inside hiap that opened up

Gwenna only realised that Angelo had arrived when he closed an arht’ She twisted round anddark eyes and her heart jumped as if someone had pushed a panic button somewhere inside her Resentuishable whole ‘How the heck did you knohere I was?’ Angelo shifted her to one side and nodded to the olderinstruction nearby ‘Franco will see you out to the limo I want a ith your…friendin private,bellezza mia ’ The deliberate hesitation in his reference to Toby , she picked up on the current of priripped her but she could not quite credit her suspicions ‘Angelo, for goodness’ sake—’ ‘Go with Franco’ ‘Don’t you dare touch Toby!’ Gwenna gasped in a panic, hastily stepping in front of the youngerfeatures was unmistakable

A savage wave of anger gripped Angelo That she should oppose him and put herself at risk in a ridiculous effort to protect another limpse of the apprehension in her expressive eyes snapped hiht back into control

‘Come home with me, then,’ he breathed tautly

‘I’ any place with you’ Yet, Gwenna still couldn’t take her eyes off Angelo There was a light in his brilliant, brooding dark eyes that held her tighter than any chain Slowly her attention stretched to encompass the impressive whole In tailored black chinos ith a striped designer shirt open at the neck, he looked absolutely gorgeous As usual she was full of wildly conflicting responses When she had believed he was about to thump Toby she had been terrified and then er escalated in direct response to the fierce e

‘I’m Toby Ja that,’ Toby res

‘I’ in his direction

‘You’re just so rude…you’ve got noherself with that outburst as elo

‘One reed, three is hopelessly decadent,’ Toby extended in obliging explanation for Angelo’s benefit

Pale as elo’s direction ‘Let’s dance, Toby’ ‘I think you should have this out with Angelo…only nothere because we’re attracting attention,’ Toby spelt out in a suggestive whisper

Still ignoring hielo strode forward and closed a hand like a cast-iron anchor to Gwenna’s narrorist Long, lean fingers smoothed her delicate bones, but when she tried to pull free he retained his hold ‘We’re going’ Furious pink flushed her cheeks Had Toby not reminded her that she was in a public place she would have screeched back at Angelo like a harpy But she was keen to leave and say what she wanted to say with dignity Chin at a pugnacious angle, she bade Toby goodbye and told him she’d phone him

‘Not if I’ve got anything to do with it,’ Angelo contradicted in a raw undertone as he walked her away ‘You told me you were out with a friend Ibelieved you—’ ‘I was out with a friend’‘Where did you get the idea that you could fool lance ‘Now I know you can’t be trusted, you’ll have coo’ ‘I can’t believe you have the nerve to talk like this to nored what Toby said about theto say on that score,’ Angelo delivered with the lethal hard-nosed cool that always silenced female pretensions