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She held her breath as Marco crouched down beside her, struggling to lift her head and fight off the swiiven a lot for him not to have seen her like this, not to have witnessed her hu loss of consciousness
‘There's no need to fuss I' as steady as she could
‘Don't listen to her Marco She isn't all right at all She's hardly eating and when she does, she's sick'
'Jemma!' Emily warned sharply
‘Je the Official Secrets Act' Marco defended her assistant dryly ‘After all she hasn't toldI can't see for myself And, besides, there's no reason why I shouldn't know, is there?'
None, except her pride and her aching heart Emily admitted inwardly And of course, those wouldn'there Your Highness’, she addressed hi his title
He couldn't just walk away and leave her like this Marco decided So as he going to do? His return flight was already scheduled for later this evening Emily wasn't his responsibility She was an adult There was no good cause for him to involve himself here But another voice deep inside hiuments He had already made his decision
‘I caot a business proposition to put to you' he told E with confusion and disbelief She was lifting her hand to her head, as though she couldn't take in what he was saying Seeing her look so thin and unwell touched an unfamiliar chord inside him which he crushed down the instant he felt it
E it hard enough to grasp that Marco was actually here, never hts were in complete disarray She couldn't really coh for her to focus si her body with the force of its frantic beats, without having to think logically and calmly as well It had upset her far ht of him should have affected her to such an extent that she had collapsed
Worryingly even now her senses were still clinging possessively to the ht her Part of her the sensible part, she told herself firmly, wanted to put as much distance between the it even more obvious just how intensely aware of hied to be as intimately close to him as it was possible to be: body to body, skin to skin, mouth to mouth—heart to heart
‘A business proposition?’ she repeated uncertainly What exactly does that ner’