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‘For God’s sake, give it up, Elizabeth,’ he rasped impatiently ‘Just accept that you’ve met someone who’s as stubborn as you are!’

Her eyes widened ‘My refusal of your offer to acco stubborn’

‘No?’ he challenged ‘Then what does it have to do with?’

Delicate colour entered her cheeks even as she glared across at hi your help on me—’ She broke off abruptly, her eyes wide, her breasts quickly rising and falling in her agitation, hands clenched at her sides

Rogan became very still ‘What, exactly, do you suppose I should have a bad conscience about, Elizabeth?’ he asked quietly

She looked flustered ‘Your mistake about your father, of course’

‘Really?’ he pressed

The colour deepened in her cheeks ‘Yes, really!’

‘Liar,’ Rogan ret what happened this ?’

Of course she regretted what had happened thisin love with thisto love her back!

‘Let’s not cloud the issue by talking about this ,’ she dismissed briskly

‘What issue is that?’ He once again hooked his thumbs into his jeans pockets

Elizabeth eyed hi distracted herself But did Rogan have to be so darkly handsoed to force hio erected so carefully about her emotions?

She scowled ‘That I do not need you to accompany me when I visit my own father!’

‘Fine,’ he bit out tersely ‘I’ll just co for the ride, then, and wait outside in the car while you go in and talk to him’

‘You—’

‘Surrey is probably a very nice place to visit this tian continued conversationally

Elizabeth glared at him ‘Cornwall is nicer!’

He gave an unconcerned shrug ‘I’ve seen Cornwall I’ve never been to Surrey’

Rogan really was deter with her, she realised in frustration

And, deep inside herself, despite her s, she was secretly relieved that she didn’t have to say goodbye to him just yet…

She wished she never had to say goodbye to him!

Chapter Twelve

‘SO NOW, along with the rest of the guys in my unit who survived that last ton called RS Security,’ Rogan revealed

He had been talking without pause for half an hour now, ever since Elizabeth had given hi to London In fact, he hadn’t stopped talking, about everything and nothing, since they had left Leonard Brown’s house in Surrey

All in an effort to give Elizabeth the time she needed to decide how she felt about that visit to her father…

‘The naan continued ‘Business and house security Cos…’

‘Retrieving lost dogs?’ Elizabeth repeated disbelievingly

Rogan shot her a grin; it was the first tiot back on the road ‘Well…htly ‘But if someone asked I’d probably do it’

Elizabeth ell aware of what Rogan was doing—kneas atte but the visit she had just made to her father

At best, it had been a stilted visit At worst, it hadn’t served to vindicate her father of any of the things Elizabeth had believed concerning his disastrous e to her mother

What it had achieved, however, was to show her that her father had more than met his match in his second wife, Cheryl Blonde and beautiful, and twenty years younger than her husband, Cheryl obviously kept the ard Leonard on a very tight leash So much so that Elizabeth doubted her father ever had the ti!

Seeing her father again had helped Elizabeth to view hih the eyes of an adult, rather than the hurt child she had still been ten years ago…