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Jaul stilled in the lounge doorway, dark eyes flashing bright as a fla that stupid?’

‘Because I can,’ Chrissie replied, truthful to the last word ‘I won’t willingly do anything which suits you and I know you want to keep all this on the do After all, you never did own up publicly to the shaner, did you?’

‘I believed the e was invalid!’ Jaul shot back at her, lean brown hands coiling into fists ‘Why would I have talked about it?’

‘Well, uys would at least have talked about it to the woman who believed she was married to them,’ Chrissie pointed out scornfully as she stretched out a hand to open the door ‘But youwhat did you do? Oh, yesyou ran out on me and left your daddy to clear up the mess you left behind you!’

Sheer rage at that unjust condeulfed Jaul so fast he was dizzy with it He snapped long fingers round a slender wrist before she could open the door Solden eyes raked her flushed and defiant face ‘You will not speak to me like that’

Suppressing a spash and her eyes sparkled with challenge ‘Message to Jaul—I can speak to you any way I like and there’s not a darned thing you can do about it! You don’t deserve anything better from me after the way you treated me’

With a conteers, Jaul relinquished his hold on her Dark eyes still sparking like high-voltage wires, he scanned her with derision ‘Is this your way of trying to push the price up? You want e?’

A genuine laugh fell froot plenty of money,’ she told him blithely ‘I don’t want a penny from you I only want to make you sweat’

Jaul no longer trusted his temper or his control Nobody had spoken to him like that since he had last seen Chrissie and it was a salutary lesson Their personalities had been on a collision course fro-willed, obstinate and quick-tehts and evenreconciliations In fact those reconciliations had been such sweet fantasies Jaul had never forgotten the about theerous

His beautifully shaped es, fine ebony brows drawing together in a frown of censure, he breathed curtly, ‘I can see there’s no talking to you in the mood you’re in—’

‘I’ an involuntary snatch of the spicy cologne he wore, her senses reeling at the sudden flood of familiarity that made her ache and hurt as if his betrayal were as recent as yesterday It also rehts and incredible passion, a thought which instantly infuriated her

‘I’ll return later when you’ve had time to think over what I’ve told you,’ he informed her with typical tenacity

Chrissie bit back the ad at her sister’s home for several days That was her business, not his, and she had no intention of telling hi likely to lead to his discovery that he was not onlythe pigeons with a vengeance, she conceded worriedly, and it was not so where she stood

The strained silence smouldered

‘A divorce is the only sensible option and I don’t object to paying for the privilege,’ Jaul grated between clenched teeth, out of all patience with her reluctance to discuss the issue ‘As ed or otherwise, you’re naturally entitled to my financial support—’

‘I want nothing froedly ‘Please leave’

Long bronzed fingers bit into the edge of the door as Jaul fought a powerful i, that would stir her into a ht and fearless Chrissie? He glanced at her in frustration Her eyes were blank, her delicately pointed features ee that he was the enemy and not to be trusted