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“Did you need so?”

At the sound of her voice he dragged his gaze froner, Dean Shiffling” He couldn’t keep the annoyance out of his voice “He can’t make it until day after tomorrow I told him we’d send a car to meet him at the airport”

They’d taken half a dozen steps down the hall but she halted abruptly “Luca, we don’t have a car We have a shuttle van”

“Fiori does not herd guests into a, what did you call it? A shuttle van” Heunder his breath There was e to bring it up to Fiori standards “I shall look after getting us proper transportation”

He started walking again, knowing she’d have no choice but to follow after hi in her head, working sums A s, but he had to ad since he’d had a worthy opponent to butt heads with and he got the feeling that Mari would be up to the challenge It orth it to see that firelight in her gray-blue eyes and her color rise So much better than her icy withdrawal

They stepped into the lobby area “What did you want to seethe lobby He looked at the floor They’d get rid of some of those fussy carpets, polish the stone beneath And the lighting rong This lobby was cost the richness Let them play off each other

“I didn’t You ran into me, remember?”

“Ah, yes A happy accident indeed” He let his eyes twinkle at her “And you were in a spectacular rush”

“I thought of so your redecorating”

“Yes?” She had his attention

“And you’re noticeably agitated that your designer isn’t at your beck and call within the hour”

His eyebrow raised at that She was going to keep hiht away and he was being forced to wait

“Perhaps”