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He looked her up and down ‘You’ve been crying,’ he said softly

‘No, I haven’t I have hay fever’

His brows rose ‘At the end of summer?’

‘All year round’ Her heart was kicking inside her chest like a racehorse trying to break out of its barrier but she’d be damned if she’d let him see her so vulnerable

‘Would you like a cup of tea, Mr James?’

‘Dare doesn’t drink tea, Mother,’ she said stiffly

‘I didn’t think you did either,’ he said gruffly

Carly wasn’t about to explain that this was her and her ht I told you not to coain’

His nostrils flared at her frosty tone ‘I needed to es’

‘I got the one about the panties,’ Carly scoffed ‘That was enough’

‘I think I ht leave you two to talk,’ her mother said softly

Carly glanced up and saw her mother’s flushed face ‘Thanks, Muotten her mother was even in the room By the look on his face, Dare had too

‘About that ed at the collar on his jacket ‘I wasn’t exactly thinking straight when I left it’

‘You don’t say’

He ignored her sarcas to es’

‘I don’t care about your other es I want you to leave’

Dare stared at her beautiful, defiant face Was that it? Was that all she was going to say after he’d poured his heart out to her? After the things he’d told her?

Yes, it seemed so

He sucked in a steadying breath ‘There’s nothing you want to add?’

‘If I’d had so to add I would have called you, wouldn’t I?’