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‘Try harder’ Because this would not end well, she knew it as surely as she knew her own name

He laughed ‘Easy, Red I only came to talk’

Feigning a calm she didn’t feel, Carly snatched up her silky robe fro as she moved to one of the Queen Anne armchairs beside the fireplace

In winter this would no doubt be a cosy place to hole up in with a good book Or a lover

Dare followed her and leant against the mantelpiece

‘I’,’ he said

Carly rested back in the chair and curled her legs underneath her ‘Can’t you satisfy it somewhere else?’

He laughed softly ‘Unfortunately not Tellposition with an elderly man?’

Running was her first thought, hiding her second

Unsettled by her reflections and the lared up at him

‘First of all,’ Carly began frostily, ‘nurses are not lowly and second of all it’s none of your damned business’

She jumped to her feet and paced away from him

His brows drew together ‘I didn’t mean lowly, as in the profession I meant as in below your professional capabilities As I understand it there’s a shortage of doctors all over the country’

‘So you’re an expert on thethe world frohts’

‘I didn’t say that’

‘You didn’t have to You just stand there and pass judgment It’s what you do best’

A muscle flicked in his jaw ‘I only asked a couple of questions’

Carly took a deep breath ‘I’ve been at the end of some of your questions before and they’re unpleasant to say the least’

Dare shifted uncoht have made a mistake’

‘One?’ She arched a brow, her te at his confession