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Looking back, he had been able to round, in his ed father—the caring, attractive ex-nurse, with a heart full of compassion and empathy because, after all, she had seen so many hurt and lonely ers in her line of work

‘She was a nurse? I thought that was a caring line of work’ She was hanging on to his every word, barely noticing the grand surroundings of the hotel, or the way the wo the reception desk in the early hours of thejumped to attention the second he strode in and then scraht to the bank of lifts

‘You’d think’ Sergio flicked her a wry glance ‘My first powerful lesson in never judging a book by its cover’

‘And in always assu the worst when it comes to other people’s motivations’

‘Very good’

‘What happened?’

Sergio’s eyes narrowed and he shrugged His face was hard and coldly unforgiving, even though he was recalling a past situation and not currently enduring it

‘She ineer an introduction to , fun girl, thirty years his junior, who could understand just what he h She told him a life alone was no kind of life—not for a sexy silver fox like him He was flattered For the first ti after all They werebefore her true colours started appearing The caring, sharing nurse beca—and if that wasn’t enough she contrived to get e his will When he died suddenly of a heart attack prettywent to her, and within five years she had h most of his fortune Fortunately, he’d had the sense to leave the majority of his companies to me She was cash-rich, with a couple of houses to spare, but she was still greedy enough to consult a lawyer, in the hope that she et her hands on so her off until she finally gave up Where she is now is anybody’s guess’

Susie wandered over to the chaise longue by theand sat down, her own problems temporarily on the back burner as she worked out just how he had ended up where he had

There was safety in a hard-boiled career woht of her own sister Alex would never be interested in anyone’sherself on the back of soet ahead under her own steam That would be the sort of woman he would be seriously interested in A woman who had her own life—just as he had his own life

‘I’ve seen how a person can i up a position on the chair facing her, his long legs stretched out in front of hiet swept away by emotion, lose all sense of perspective, abandon their self-control As far as I’ood ending’

Susie thought that heher

‘In due course,’ he drawled, ‘I iine I ant to settle down, but when that tieement’

He was uneasily aware of just how fast his self-control disappeared when he was presented with her glorious body, but immediately dismissed that as a cause for concern because there was a clear line of demarcation between the physical and the emotional On the e, and on the physical front Well, a little loss of self-control was perfectly acceptableit e to his usual predictable diet

Susie heard the un repositioned

Her breathing quickened and she flushed under the steady gaze of his eyes

Why had she let herself be talked into co back here with him? She knehy Because she eak and in love Because one kiss fro in all directions Because she was just the sort of e-term investment