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But if she was, then she was completely unknown territory to him

Territory he would run a mile to avoid!

‘You,’ she spat out with feeling, the angry colour returning to her cheeks, ‘are not a gentleman!’

Luc gave a wince ‘Thankfully, no,’ he acknowledged entlemen have a lot less fun than I do!’

Darci frowned at hiruntledly; he didn’t have to sound so proud of the fact!

‘You’re i and continuing to walk down the pathway They were aloodness

‘So o,’ he told her unconcernedly as he fell into step beside her

Her eyes widened ‘You had a nanny?’

‘Of course,’ he confirs in the Ga look ‘Besides,’ he added hardly as he strode forcefully across the car park towards the car, ‘rossed with each other, to see to the day-to-day needs of their tild, uncontrollable sons’

Darci gave hi there was a lotto admit—possibly a deep-buried hurt If his parents had been too engrossed with each other to deal with ‘the day-to-day needs of their tild, uncontrollable sons’, had they possibly totally excluded their sons…?

Her own parents had a happy, loving e, but it wasn’t a relationship that had ever excluded either Grant or Darci However, that didn’t sound the case with Luc’s parents

Perhaps that was a possible explanation for Luc’s own lack of emotional commitment?

Darci wasn’t a psychiatrist, but she had studiedto become a doctor, and there surely had to be some reason for Luc’s total lack of a permanent cooodness’ sake; surely hethose years?