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Mari checked her watch: 9:00 ah, with none of the nighthts were crowded out by the knowledge that full-day staff were in the hotel and she only had yesterday’s clothes to dress in She should have used her head last night

But nothing about yesterday had been about logic or sense

“Good ,” Luca said from the doorway to the bedroom

She scrambled up to a seated position “Luca, I’m so sorry I slept…”

“Here all night,” he finished, a sainst the door frame “Slept nearly fifteen hours”

“Ilike this was nor that had happened yesterday with a vengeance Including kissing hi she loved him…

And in the silence she felt a blush creep up her neck and blooet out of this situation with a ht of day it was clearer than ever that revealing her true feelings would be a ure out exactly hat

“I think that sleep ,” he replied lazily

A knock sounded at the door Mari lifted her eyebrows in his direction He ed

“You grew restless a while ago I ordered up breakfast You …you didn’t have any dinner”

He opened the door while Mari hastily pulled on her clothes, ja her hair back into the clip she’d worn yesterday As she came out of the bedroom, one of their staff wheeled in a cart adorned with silver domed trays

“Thank you, Geoff” Luca handed a bill to the server who nodded, then smiled in Mari’s direction

Mari frowned as the door shut with a quiet click “I don’t want this getting around the staff What are they going to think of me up here in your suite?”

“You’ve been here before”

“Not looking like this Not co out of your bedroom”

Lucatable “Don’t worry, I’m used to it It always blows over”