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He shook her ie frame from the chair and fetched his laptop from where his co-pilot had stowed it prior to take-off The fact that the woman could turn him on fro—and it was! Itto have to figure out how to get the troubleso he hoped to put off for as long as possible

CHAPTER ONE

THE THEME ON the gold-leaf invitation for Sydney’s , romantic, seductive’

Tick, tick and tick, Ruby thought, stifling a yawn and giving a sreat ti at home on my sofa in front of the latest instalment of Law & Order

And wearing coly as she took in the packed ornate ballroom

A lavish ball was the last place she wanted to be after a gruelling eighty-hour working week that had gone from bad to worse and still required more hours to be put in, but she was here in support of her sister, so leaving wasn’t an option just yet

And she supposed it was an interesting interlude frohting the good fight When else would she get the chance to join the who’s who of the theatre world in a multimillion-dollar Point Piper mansion with unrivalled harbour views beyond the infinity pool?

Everywhere Ruby looked there was a dazzling display of elaborately costu in a profusion of excite back in tis andine that sparkled like liquid gold beneath the light of a thousand chandeliers Frescoes of cherubs and deer stared down frorey Sydney Harbour Bridge glowed through the open French doors, re everyone that they were in fact in Sydney and not visiting so Carnevale

Ruby surreptitiously adjusted the neckline of her fitted gohich kept slipping to reveal a little tooShe was supposed to be Marie Antoinette but her mirror had deemed that she lookedher thankful she ell-hidden behind an elaborate black lace mask

‘You know I really appreciate you coht, don’t you?’ Molly murmured

Thanks to live music from the twenty-piece band where a well-known pop star was belting out her latest hit, Ruby had to lean in close to catch her sister’s words

‘I’uilty about roping her into acco her Molly was on a personal quest to waylay some in-demand director and convince hi Hollywood epic Molly had paid her dues at drama school and appeared in small-to-mediu to help make her sister’s dreams come true

‘No, you’re not,’ Molly said, shrugging good-naturedly ‘But I appreciate the lie I’m also under strict instructions to make sure you have fun and relax for once’

‘Letfull here her instructions had come from ‘Mum told you to find me a nice randbabies’ Nothing new there ‘Which is so not going to happen, and, for the record, I take serious ue at the insinuation that I don’t normally relax and have fun because I do All the time!’

‘Oh, did I only insinuate that last bit?’ Molly feigned a shocked expression ‘I ht’

‘Ha-ha’ Ruby narrowed her eyes a class booked the following , didn’t she? ‘And how to have fun’

‘You work,’ Molly corrected ‘But that’s okay Tonight I will ply you with drinks and ensure that youaith’

Ruby gri lawyer kneeekend as par for the course Particularly with the big cases, and Ruby had just eest of her career, so ht now If they ever had been