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He had been deeply annoyed at their conversation before dinner, but it was an annoyance he recognised as being slightly illogical Because he knew he had earned his reputation—even if he wouldn’t have quite put it in the ter playboy!

He certainly didn’t like the idea that that hat Darci thought him to be!

He was thirty-four years old, had been sexually active since the age of sixteen and had never married, and so of course there had been woret any of those affairs, either

Especially when it was the very experience he had gained that had enabled hi before…

‘So tell ered over the cheese course, ‘what made you decide to become a doctor?’

He had spent a lot of the tiether in surreptitiously watching Darci as she worked He had noted the slenderness of her wrists and her long hands, her economy of movement, and had known that she was the sort of wo well It was also clear that she would bring the same economy and efficiency of movement to her chosen profession

And to her love…?

It was a long ti love with any woman—since he had needed to!—but as he’d watched Darci he hadn’t been able to stop hiers on his body, as she touched and caressed hi him

Darci thought awhile, not exactly mellowed by the food she had eaten and the wine she had drunk, but certainly not as tense as she had been earlier, either Which was due, in part, she knew, to the fact that Luc had been decidedly unthreatening—deliberately so?—as they’d prepared dinner together

‘Why did you become a film producer?’ she came back dryly

Luc shook his head ‘It isn’t the sa you enter into on a whim It takes dedication and a lot of hard work’

Darci quirked one auburn brow ‘And is that what you did? Became a fil look

She was turning this conversation back on him, Luc knew In an effort not to talk about herself?