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Luc Gambrelli, of all men!

And the worst of it was, if she hadn’t already known of his coiven his media reputation and his ruthless pursuit of Mellie, quickly followed by his disappearance out of her friend’s life coht just have fallen in love with him herself!

She ht be a little in love with him anyway…

She stuhtly at that realisation, and ily about the top of her ar

‘Don’t touch me!’ she turned to snap coldly, and she wrenched her ar herself in the process, but not caring, only knowing that she couldn’t bear to have Luc touch her when she was feeling so emotionally vulnerable

Luc drew in a harsh breath as he teetered on the edge of losing his usual self-control

All of the Gambrelli men had a temper—a red-hot temper that burned so deeply it becaave the impression that they ithout emotion at all

Darci’s show of conte that extreme reaction

And Luc would guarantee that she wouldn’t like it if it did!

He released her to draw in severalbreaths ‘You did not seeo—in fact, the opposite!’ he relish had beco his temper!

It was so that he had no choice but to turn in on himself, as he saw the way his deliberate cruelty had made Darci’s cheeks pale

But, da herself, when it had to be as obvious to her as it was to hied him—to make love to her?

Why did Darci keep fighting hinited between theether?

One possibility had occurred to hio—a possibility that he had dis about Because there was no way, beautiful as she was, and at the age of twenty-eight, that Darci could possibly still be a virgin