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Those words hung in her mind as she returned to the party with Lydia, instantly spotting Max, pleased to see he looked casually and briefly their way, then looked again, hardly able to believe she’d had the nerve to return after running out on him so publicly

‘See,’ said Lydia as she got them both fresh drinks ‘He can’t take his eyes off you’

‘He wants to get a divorce’ The words slipped icily fronore the heat of his glare as it bored into her back

‘No, he doesn’t If he’s anything like his brother he knows exactly what he wants, he just doesn’t believe he can have it He doesn’t believe he can love anyone’

Lisa looked at Lydia ‘You and Raul?’

‘Yes,out of the restaurant that day they first met As far as I was concerned it was over He didn’t love me, didn’t want my love and that was that’

‘What changed?’

‘For Raul I guess it was hosts of his past’

‘May I interrupt?’ Max’s voice sounded fro her visibly jump How much of that conversation had he heard?

She whirled round ‘You shouldn’t keep sneaking up on people You s you don’t want to hear’

His brows rose in that sexy way that always melted her heart and buckled her knees and this time was no different, even if he was in a dark mood ‘Perhaps it’s the only way to discover what someone really thinks about me Shall we dance?’

Dance? Was he insane? After all they’d said to one another, all the public humiliation, and he wanted to dance Raul joined theesture that spoke volumes of the love they shared but also left her alone with Max

‘You don’t really want to dance’

‘Yes, I do We need to set a few things straight and there’s less chance of you running off if I have htly’

Before she could say anything else, he’d taken her drink fro their way into the couples already on the floor He held her so tightly it was dangerously intimate At least that was how it felt to her, but to hi her frouests see as really between the