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CHAPTER FIVE

THE snug-fitting deni, when she opened the door to Luc’s ring on the doorbell prompt at seven-thirty, were, he considered, a vast iht before This outfit emphasised the feline leanness of her body beneath the full swell of her breasts

Although Luc couldn’t say he approved of the fact that Darci had swept back all that fiery-red hair and secured it in a loose topknot that dulled its colour to auburn

However, the reen eyes as she looked at hi that would put tinder to that particular flame

He smatically as he strolled past her into the apartht now’ He pulled a bottle of red wine frolass,’ he opined dryly

‘I already have a bottle of red wine open in the kitchen,’ Darci told hi on her own, she’d felt she needed a glass this evening, in order to fortify her nerves ready for when Luc Gambrelli arrived

In view of the fact that he was dressed much less formally than when she had previously seen hi lon on his lean hips, the black fitted T-shirt e his flat, muscled sto a sharp contrast to the burnished gold of his overlong hair—her instinct had obviously been a correct one!

‘Are we alone this evening?’ he enquireddown on the table that stood in the middle of the kitchen

Darci’s gaze narrowed She kneas asking if she had complied with his advice and asked Kerry not to be here

As it happened, she hadn’t needed to ask Kerry to go out—because once Kerry had arrived hoht before, and Darci had told her of her own disastrous evening, her friend had felt absolutely no inclination to be here when Luc Gaht In fact, Kerry had opted out of the situation altogether, and decided to spend the night at Michael’s flat!

‘Yes,’ she confirhtly as Luc took prawns, steaks, s of a salad fro he had carried in with hi to be able to eat any of that,’ she told hilass for him and topped up her own at the same time