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‘What about htened but he kept his voice neutral

‘Do you kno to get in touch with him?’

‘I fail to see where you’re going with this’

Heather glanced at hi response ‘Don’t you think that he should know about Katherine’s fall?’ This innocent question was greeted with stunning silence as Leo began driving slowly through the cluttered car-park, looking for a free space and co about the incompetence of the council, which had closed off a section of the car-park for repair hich appeared to be at a complete standstill

‘Aren’t you going to give me a lecture about the virtues of public transport at this point?’ he asked, neatly backing his car into a space which left thele out ‘Or at least the perils of being seduced into buying cars that are too big to be useful? Maybe a sermon about the curse of the workaholic and the as that aren’t essential?’

After what had been a fraught-free drive to the hospital, Heather was confused at the sudden cool mockery in Leo’s voice Where had that come from?

‘I don’t care what you choose to spend your money on It can’t buy happiness’

‘There are ti cliché, do you know that?’

‘Why can’t you be nice for longer than five seconds?’ Heather snapped, glaring at hi the door shut ‘Oneu…’

‘There’s no need to drag ers through his hair ‘Not that anyone is that certain of his whereabouts’

‘Your mother must knohere he is,’ Heather persisted ‘And wouldn’t it be only fair to fill him in? Of course, if he’s halfway across the world there’s no need for hiland, but he deserves to know’

‘This is not a matter open to discussion’

‘Your ree with that’

Leo, striding towards the hospital entrance, swung round to face her

She was staring up at hiry defiance

This hat turned him on and drove him nuts in equal measure Driven by a sense of frustration, Leo reached out and pulled her angrily towards hi her by surprise so that she tumbled into him, her body soft and unresistant because she had had no time to shove him away

There was nothing tender about the savage assault of his ers into her hair and, although she was too stunned to put up ainst him

In that o up in flames It was as if a match had been struck inside her and had found that her defences, instead of being iron clad, were made of tinder

Her lips parted wordlessly to accept his questing, urgent tongue She heard herself give a soft uely aware of people walking past them Frankly, she couldn’t have cared less what sort of spectacle they were

Her breasts were tender, crushed against his chest, and the abrasive rub of her bra against her nipples was sending tingling sensations all through her body, down to where a honeyed da for more

When he tore hi hit suddenly by a cold breeze She had a few seconds of realising that she actuallyhis arms around her The silence between the at her It didn’t take the IQ of a genius to realise that he had come to his senses—which washis lapse in judgement

‘How dare you?’ Heather struggled to hang on to her dignity, but her belated outrage withered away under his look of incredulity

‘Spare roup of people weaved around them and he pulled her further to one side No, this was definitely not how things were supposed to happen ‘I didn’t notice you turning away in revulsion In fact, just the opposite—but then we both knohat’s going on here, don’t we?’

‘Yes! We’re on our way to pay a visit to yourthe way…’ She had the grace to blush ‘You kissed me, and…’

‘You’re going to have to stop doing that, you know’

‘Doing what?’

‘Pretending that you’re the innocent victim It just doesn’t sit ith the truth Fact is, if we hadn’t been here then there’s no telling where ould have ended up’