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‘They have only just said their vows,’ Lisa ireen eyes full of confusion ‘We can’t leave now’

‘We can and ill’ He put his ar the jolt of heat that rushed through hiuests ‘After ish the bride and groom well’

Before Lisa could process as happening, a radiant Lydia was sratulations are in order, that you are Max are going to be parents’

‘Yes’ This was the hardest bit of acting she’d done since arriving in Madrid

Raul and Max were suddenly deep in conversation, turned slightly away, and Lisa had never felt so excluded Lydiaabout their father’s will It see from one very corrupt member of the board, but I bet he never expected Raul to find his brother and welcoet married’

Lydia’s light laughter didn’t quite disguise the undercurrent of seriousness of her words and Lisa vowed to ask Max about it later In fact, ood time to find out more about theside of tohere police visits to her house happened with alarularity

‘Lisa and I will look forward to seeing you in London for Angelina’s twenty-first birthday party’ Max’s words dragged her mind back froainst him in a pretence of affection

‘We wouldn’t miss it’ Raul’s deep and accented voice was so like Max’s it was hardly believable

‘You’re not going on honeyht

‘My wife is a roise for, the sting of hurt bringing heat to her cheeks

‘Then you are very lucky,’ Raul said as he looked into his wife’s eyes,a connection that almost excluded her and Max ‘And so too am I’

‘I think we should leave you two alone’ Max’s stern voice hardly dented the aura of love in the air and the needs barely noticed ‘Especially as I have roland’

Lisa had resisted the urge to ask any further questions as the s scowl on Max’s face had been enough to see to that, but with each passing hour histo feel he was further away than ever from her Unreachable

She’d never ione fro two people in love say their vows to a cold and stony silence that was frostier than the weather they’d returned to That silence had deepened, beco more Arctic as a sleek black car had pulled up at the steps of the plane and Max had ushered her into the passenger seat and then settled himself in the driver’s seat They had left the airport and driven, not toward his London apartht, but out into the darkness of the countryside

‘This is where ill be spending Christmas’ His deep and all too sensual voice shocked her as he spoke in the darkness of the car His gaze was fir beahts, as he manoeuvred his sleek sports car off thebut darkness She had no idea where they were All she kneas that they’d left London behind over an hour ago

‘Where are we?’ The mystery was too much for her tired e, festooned in festive lights, sprang frohts fro at someone else’s home One very much occupied

‘You wanted Christht, your idea of Christ like this’ There was the faintest hint of a to be fooled or lulled into a false sense of security, not after the hard and cold mood he’d been in all day

‘But I told you that a long tio Before erethat word, for re them both of the issues that lay between them

‘You did You said you’d always ie, co fire’ He moved toward her in the darkness of the car, the leather of the seat scrunching softly above the subtle huine Her heart leapt as she inhaled his scent Why did she have to react so acutely to him?