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Dare watched her storm into his bedrooarden below Breathed deeply Tried to get his head together It didn’t work; if anything he feltbecause she thought it hat he wanted to hear?

When he heard his front door slaripped the balustrade in front of hi

CHAPTER ELEVEN

THAT WAS SOMETHING he was convinced of right up until he’d snatched up his hel to hit the open roads Which hen the sick feeling was replaced with a sense of hollowness

She’d left him She’d really walked out And why? Because she had an unreasonable teht mind would want to put up with that And what had she expected him to say after he’d seen her return Beckett’s necklace? After the way Beckett had shed at him?

All Dare had wanted was the facts What the hell rong with that? Nothing—that hat

Except obviously there was, or he wouldn’t be feeling this hollow This e on his stationary bike, breathing in petrol fue

Dare grimaced From the moment he’d met her Carly Evans had twisted him up and turned him inside out until he hadn’t knohich as up But not anymore If she didn’t want him then he didn’t want her either Only he did

He shook his head He needed to get hoone off chasing rainbows Dare had usually spent a couple of days cast the raccoons and bears Not that he’d ever seen a bear Much as he’d tried Soht one with nothing but his bare hands During those times he’d felt as if he could have ripped a bear’s head off

But why couldn’t he take what she said at face value? He knew the answer: people often said one thing and meant another His father was a case in point, but there had been others Other women who had said they loved him, but really they had loved his money and status

But hoould he know if Carly had told him the truth? The fact was a man could only really ever rely on himself He knew that

He shoved the helo for a ride to clear his head, and then he’d stop off at the hospital before heading to the office God knew his PA didn’t knohat tooff Then he’d think about what to do about Carly