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‘Injustices?’ he prompted flatly

‘You ruined her reputation by referring to her as a prostitute As that ludicrous designation and the story is still available online to anyone who cares to look her up, Vivi found it impossible to find a job commensurate with her abilities,’ Stareat deal for someone as innocent of fault Her friends dropped her, her nahed at, despised and she was obliged to leave jobs until she was finally forced to legally take another surna past She is non as Vivien Fox’

Raffaele nodded, that little sob story of Vivi’s woes touching him not at all Of course, he wasn’t an elderly randchild, he reasoned without hesitation He was cool, logical, innately critical and suspicious, particularly when it caenuinely innocent woman

He relittered like copper wire in the sunlight but which felt like spun silk A tall, beautiful redhead, who could look i she wore, even jeans Skin like translucent porcelain and eyes as brilliant a blue as the Italian summer sky He also re to her wiles, even though she didn’t fit his preferred expectations of a woman in any field He had had a narrow escape there and he was still grateful for it and not one bit regretful for anything he had said that could have offended Stam Fotakis

Unless hisStarudgingly And harmed Arianna very definitely would be, if that dossier of her past foolishness was ever to be released to the press, because her fiancé’s family were very conventional, and he would come under a lot of pressure to ditch her That would send Arianna reeling and straight back into the erratic behaviour she had left behind her after falling in love with Tomas

‘I don’t knohat you want from me,’ Raffaele intoned levelly ‘But I cannot believe that you genuinely want to injure another naive young woman like my sister Arianna was born with problems’

Sta hand ‘I know she was born addicted to drugs and suffers froht and is far too trusting of strangers, but she’s not my responsibility, she’s yours,’ he pointed out calive her your illustrious name’

‘Marry her?’ Raffaele exclairy disbelief before he clenched his jaw shut and bit back any unwise comments as to the likelihood of Vivi’s much-vaunted innocence

‘Only for the cere in society,’ Stah he were discussing the weather ‘I want nothingday and a divorce will duly follow No financial settlement will be required on her behalf either It is a modest request’

‘Modest?’ Raffaele queried with incredulous emphasis

‘Yes I have no doubt that you think yourself very round and breeding,’ Staainst you But you should be grateful that the teood name is all that I require from you in return for that dossier, which would have a catastrophic effect on your sister’s marital plans’

Fotakis knew it all, Raffaele acknowledged grittily, and, no eous Stam’s demand that he marry Vivi, he kneould have to consider it to protect Arianna’s future stability and security Toly immaturity and impulsiveness where many men would have run a mile, and he didn’t want her only because she was an heiress either Tomas, as sensible and stable as Arianna was not, was his sister’s perfect match and, as more, Arianna loved him

How could he stand by in silence while she lost all that overepisode in a fa mistakenly arrested as a shoplifter? Unhappily, there were other murkier episodes involved and included in that file, he conceded grudgingly, such as the tiht with two men because her so-called friends had dared her to do so