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With one last disgusted sweep of that hard, uncoaze over her tousled appearance, he turned on his heel and left the roo behind him with controlled violence only seconds later

Darci fell weakly back onto the bed to stare up at the ceiling, all arousal, all desire, having dissipated in the face of Luc’s cold fury Her eyes were burning with unshed tears

Tears of humiliation as she relived her complete abandon in Luc’s arms just now, as he’d caressed and touched her more intimately than she had ever been touched before

But she kne that Luc had deliberately aroused her, taken her to the very edge of release ti her, and that the motivation behind that deliberation hadn’t been his own need or arousal but a punishment for Darci’s deliberate actions these last six days

Because Luc denied ever havinginvolved with her

But he couldn’t be telling the truth

Could he…?

CHAPTER NINE

‘OKAY, Darci, what’s going on?’ Mellie demanded down the transatlantic telephone line

‘Going on?’ Darci cahtly

She had tried calling her friend in Los Angeles several ti the last twenty-four hours, with the intention of asking Mellie about her relationship with Luc But now that she had actually got through to her friend she didn’t quite knohat to say

Not without accusing Mellie of being a liar!

And their friendship had been too long established, was too close, for Darci to feel able to do that…

But neither had she been able to dismiss Luc’s claims that he had never even met Mellie, let alone had an affair with her He had sounded so absolutely ada the truth, had been so furious at her accusations—icily so!—that in the end Darci didn’t knohich one of them to believe Mellie or Luc

Hence her phone calls to Mellie…

‘Yes—going on,’ Mellie repeated dryly ‘Despite being the one to call ently, you’ve spent the last fiveAnd Kerry was decidedly evasive when I spoke to her on Saturday,’ she added conclusively

Dear, sweet, loyal, totally ingenuous Kerry, who couldn’t tell a lie even if she tried!