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Because there were so ement on his actions? Darci wondered as they wended their way through the denseness of the trees

Including her

But there was no excuse for the heartless way he had treated Mellie, she told herself stubbornly The way he would treat her, too, if she gave him the chance!

Well, she wouldn’t give him that chance

Soht be a little difficult to avoid when the two of them were alone in the middle of deserted forest, miles from anywhere!

Luc’s hts he could see froh her over-active iritted his teeth as he continued to stride through the forest to where he could hear the sound of water running, for the first tiht be a curse rather than an asset

Maybe it was because of the glitzy, ephe that he usually inhabited, but Luc knew he had never s that attracted other women to him—his undoubted power, his wealth, his reputed prowess in the bedroom—cut absolutely no ice with Darci Wilde She viewed all of those things with the same suspicion she obviously felt about him, and Luc knew that for every two steps forward he took with Darci he also took one back

And patience, as he knew, had never been one of his virtues!

‘Oh, this is lovely!’ Darci turned to hi in the forest with a srass bordering the strea picnicked there recently

Luc found hireen eyes glowing as shefro her on a picnic today, that these surroundings suited her litter and falseness to be found in a restaurant like Garstang’s

Making him wonder what had made Darci demand that he take her somewhere so sinfully expensive in the first place?

Except, as he was now utterly convinced, she had never had any intention of turning up for that date