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She drew herself up and returned his cool look with an equally cool one of her own ‘Thanks for the advice And if you’re glad you didn’t end up in bed with lad that I didn’t end up in bed with you because you’re not my type’

She forced herself to smilethe casual, dismissive smile of one adult to another

‘And I’ her head ‘In fact I’ a one-night stand, if I ever want one!’

‘I’hly unusual encounter’

God, just his voice was enough to send shivers racing up and down her spine

She held out her hand in response and pinned a smile on her face as he reached to pull open the front door ‘Thanks for dinner And I hope you find the businesswouy of my dreams’

And she dashed out of the open door, back down in that glass lift and slap-bang outside into his chauffeur driven car She dived in, slalance back as she was driven away

CHAPTER THREE

SERGIO HAD SEEN the curiosity in the florist’s eyes when he had placed his order One hundred roses in five different colours He could al shape at the back of her irl?

Stanley, his driver, was a lotthan the florist

‘Who’s the lucky girl?’

Sergio caught his driver’s eye in the rear-viewthe question

The roses had been carefully placed in the boot, all neatly wrapped in cellophane with stras, their cut stes of water

‘The “lucky girl” is the one you dropped home the week before last—not that it’s any of your business, Stanley In case you’ve forgotten the contents of your How to Be a Good Chauffeur manual, it’s not your place to ask questions about matters that don’t concern you’

‘Ah You et pulled out at the end of one of your little flings, sir, and even sonever rosesand never that many!’