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‘Not going to leave you in the lurch But you haven’ta house?’

‘I’ve said that I’ for somewhere et etting involved in the financial side, so you needn’t worry that they don’t see you as a responsible person They do’

‘And I take it you haven’t mentioned that I asked you to marry me?’

‘Why would I do that e’re not going to be married?’

It was the first time he had raised the subject for several weeks, and she wondered where she would be now if she had accepted his proposal Would she now be Mrs Susannah Burzi? It was unfairly alluring and she pushed the thought aside—because if you weren’t e on a life of at least hopefully happily married bliss, then as the point? She could never, would never, see ement

Further bought behind her back, and was gearing up to finding fault—because what did he know about her tastes when it came to houses? He had only ever seen her in her ‘rented hovel’, as he liked to call it His own apartht of whatshe personally liked Too clinical, too lacking in atmosphere

She envisaged somewhere smart and modernmaybe in a discreetly upmarket estate

Sergio didn’t say anything With every passing day he could feel her withdrawal The fire that had raged between theradually being snuffed out—overtaken by events that neither of them had anticipated

Occasionally, yes, he could feel the heat e fro hi else he wanted to shake her out of her retreat and return her to the land of the living—which included him

Right now her profile was averted, her ht be silently cursing hi all possibility of her returning to the wilds of Yorkshire to take up residence on her parents’ sprawling country estate

If they had given her a hard tihtly different, but they hadn’t He had known from the very first second he had been introduced to Louise and Robert Sadler that their youngest daughter’s driving need to please the the least able of the crew, the one dooination