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‘They woke you,’ Ruby countered ‘Why not me?’

Salanced at the ball of fur at his feet and scowled ‘Tino and Miller didn’t wakehours’

Any other ti, but Ruby wasn’t in an affable mood ‘So we’re stranded here?’

‘I hardly think you can call us stranded I can phone any time and charter a boat to come and pick us up’

‘So why haven’t you done it already?’

Sa her tone ‘I don’t know, Ruby,’ he drawled dangerously ‘Maybe because it’s only seven in thehours And I fell back asleep Is that a good enough reason for you?’

Ignoring his rhetorical question, she scowled as he pushed to his feet and ambled into the kitchen Ruby unconsciously tracked hisabout him frohs and well-shaped feet A curl of heat smouldered deep inside her

‘Want a coffee?’

Aware that she’d been caught staring, she blinked, irritation at her own lack of self-control overriding her e he was It wasn’t as if he wasn’t used to wo at him

‘No’ She raised her chin ‘What I want is to go home’

Ignoring her state with the dials on the coffee machine

‘Did you hear me?’ she asked briskly Now that Miller and Valentino weren’t here to act as buffers she saw no reason to continue to hang around and pretend that she and Sa