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Her chin ca about?’

‘Who gave you so that was meant for someone else?’

‘No one’

He studied her expression for a rey eyes locked him out as surely as if a shutter had come down ‘Talk to me, Aiesha’

‘About what?’

He stroked a fingertip along the curve of her jaw, froly she didn’t jerk away ‘Tell me why you’re upset’

‘I’ry’

Jary about a few days in Paris, all expenses paid?’

She pursed her lips, firing another glare at hiht clothes to wear’

He stroked the underside of her chin, pushing it up so her eaze couldn’t escape his ‘So I’ll buy you soar daddies and rich fiancés do, isn’t it?’

‘How are you going to explain that black eye to your business friend?’

James had wondered that himself ‘I’ll tell him I walked into a door’

Her look was scathing ‘Not very original’

‘Any ideas?’

So shadow, but then she was back to her street-sive you some concealer to put on Or I could do it for you I’uise Cuts and swelling less so’

He frowned ‘You’ve used concealer before? For covering bruises and cuts?’

‘I should’ve been a e to it ‘I had a long apprenticeship patching upher up Should’ve put that on e?’

Jaust at what she must have witnessed At what her mother must have suffered ‘Did any of them hit you?’