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Feeling her body sag he bent to her ear ‘Put your arms around my neck’

She did, clinging to him for support, and then she was in his ar her back inside, her head tucked firmly under his chin

Aidan threw the relare as he walked past and he didn’t stop until he was back in his room and had quickly deposited Cara on the deep-seated sofa

She sniffed and gazed back at hi down her face

‘Here’ He handed her a tissue and repeated his co a habit Blow’

She sniffed again and took it, swiping at her eyes beneath her sunglasses before doing as he’d instructed

‘Are you okay?’ he asked briskly

‘No … not really’

Aidan paced away froht you’d be used to handling those types of situations’

She sat up straighter and folded her long legs underneath her ‘I ht the US press were nicer than the UK ones and I … I wasn’t thinking very clearly when I left my room’

He shook his head ‘No paparazzi are nice’

‘You must think I’m pathetic,’ she murmured

He scowled but didn’t answer her She looked like a scared kitten that had just been plucked from its mother to be sent home with a nener

‘This is awful,’ she murmured ‘I take it you knohat the papers printed about last night’

‘My senior editor rang thiswith the wonderful news She wanted to knohy I’d let the other papers have the exclusive’

Cara gave a watery smile ‘What did you say?’

‘Nothing I don’t play into trashy gossip’

‘Lucky for you because I hate to think about what they’re going to print after the way you just swooped in and rescuedto say we’re a couple Why did you do it, by the way?’