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Ellery scoffed ‘Well, enjoy your winning streak It won’t last’

‘They never do,’ Aidan drawled as if he felt sorry for the fact

Cara sed He was a forainst hi to if she could avoid it She hated conflict,to pull a pillow over her head and hide than have an out-and-out stoush with someone

Cowardly of her, perhaps, but between the desire to find out how his beautiful e to run for her life, Cara would choose the latter any time Because, she suspected, if she ever did kiss Aidan Kelly, she’d coed for ever

Oh, but now that her mind had wandered down that particular track it was hard to pull it back She wondered what he would do if she asked hiet it had ever happened

And where exactly did you leave your brain tonight, you idiot girl? she berated herself Because it’s certainly not inside your sorry head

As if reading her thoughts, Aidan cut his gaze to hers and then let it drop to her lips They tingled and she felt the strongest urge to part them

Suddenly she felt very much like the meat in an overcooked sandwich as she stood between the two men

‘Maybe it would be best if we all returned indoors,’ she said, knowing it was her job to dispel the sudden hostility that emanated between them

Unfortunately neither one of them paid her any attention

‘You’re out of your depth, boy Just like your father’

Cara felt the bite in the air and sucked in a quick breath She had no idea what the trouble was between the two men but Martin Ellery had just raised the bar if the sudden tension in the o by

Slowly turning around Cara half expected Aidan to have a knife at the ready but instead he snly at thehiined the tension she had,out of him Perhaps it had just been her own

‘Gentlemen—’

‘You want to be careful, Kelly’ Ellery surprised her by putting his hand back on her waist ‘You ained for’

Oh, no Cara stiffened in ht of what Ellery was about to reveal

‘Stop worrying soto sound paranoid’

Ellery’s hand shook slightly before it tightened on her and Cara did a quick sidestep If they wanted to butt heads with each other, they didn’t need her around to watch

Before she could h, Ellery blocked her way ‘See you at the table, Kelly’