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And still he found her so

‘Have you eaten?’ he asked abruptly

She glanced up at hi?’

Not bothering to answer he stalked across the room and picked up the hotel phone ‘Coffee, sos, toast and whatever headache tablets you have in this country’

‘Why did you order all that?’

‘It’s harder to cry on a full stomach’

‘Is it?’

Aidan ran a hand through his hair ‘I don’t know, but it will help your headache’

She looked startled ‘How did you know I have a headache?’

One corner of his mouth kicked upwards ‘The tablets were for me’

‘Oh’

His srew at her contrite expression and he realised that ordinarily he’d be pissed at having his well-ordered life disrupted like this but for some reason he wasn’t

‘But you keep rubbing the back of your neck’ And it was truly distracting him ‘You just need to relax This will all blow over before you know it’

Her mouth twisted as if she didn’t believe hiht is just one irl belt And I have no idea what to tell Christos now He’s already left a couple of filthyand that was before this latest disaster’

Aidan rubbed the back of his own neck then He’d meant to help her before, not uilt about last night He knew he could have rejected Ellery’s suggestion of putting her up as a stake but he hadn’t For the first tie that he had beenthat turned out not to have been true

But if he was honest, that hadn’t been the only thing driving hiht Once his mind had locked on to her and Ellery as a real couple he’d wanted to rip her away from him He’d wanted to rip her away and lock her in a room and ask her how she could have been so stupid

But perhaps she wasn’t the stupid one in this scenario Perhaps he was

Aidan wrenched at the collar on his shirt, unused to feeling like he wasn’t in control of a situation

‘If you think about this logically,’ he began, deciding it was ti ‘What happened downstairs actually plays to your advantage’