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Darci didn’t She knew, fro from Luc as he maintained that hold on her arm to march her up the stairs to her flat, that she had pushed hi to demand some answers from her And, as he said, they had better be truthful ones

He had no intention of going anywhere until she gave them to him…

CHAPTER EIGHT

THE -room a few minutes later wasn’t Luc Gambrelli the seductive charmer, the man Darci had known up until now, or the businesslike fil else entirely A cold, icy stranger who had no intention of giving her any quarter whatsoever

Sorry, Mellie Shethat there was no way she was going to be able to get through this present conversation without bringing the other woman into it And never had it been truer than at this moment that attack was the best form of defence…

‘Mellie Chandler,’ she bit out tersely

Luc continued to look, at her with cold, unblinking eyes, the harshness of his expression unchanging

‘Melanie Chandler’ She impatiently used her friend’s full, professional name

There was still no sign of recognition in Luc’s face—not even a raise of that arrogant eyebrow

‘Oh, co down onto one of the armchairs ‘I know it’s been a feeeks, but surely you haven’t forgotten Mellie already?’

Luc had already gathered by Darci’s aggressive repetition of the name Mellie—Melanie Chandler—that it was supposed toto him

Except that it didn’t

He had never even heard the naotten the woman!

‘What about her?’ he prouardedly

Darci eyed hily ‘She’s a friend of ly ‘In fact, she’s the absent flatmate I told you about,’ she re in LA,’ she added impatiently, as Luc continued to look blank