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‘Violet actually, though you probably can’t tell because they’re bloodshot I’ Elizabeth Taylor to cheer myself up’

Aidan hesitated as he took her in ‘Do you actually need contact lenses?’

‘No I just like them’

‘What colour are your eyes naturally?’

‘A boring colour’

Before he could respond and tell her that he doubted that there could be anything boring about her at all there was a discreet knock at the door Aidan dropped her glasses into her lap

While he moved to answer the door Cara jumped off the sofa and raced for the nearest room

His bedroom It still snore it To ignore every sexy thing about him

She glanced in the htly less puffy than before but that she had been right: they were still a little bloodshot Combined with the flush on her cheeks she looked a real treat

‘Cara Where are you?’

‘In here’ She reappeared in the doorway and tried to seeether than when she’d first arrived Aidan stood beside a linen-covered trolley laden with food and her storowled ‘I didn’t want the room service person to see me’

He gave her a sardonic smile ‘I think it’s a bit late for that, don’t you?’

He held out a cup of coffee ‘How do you have it?’

‘With arsenic’

His smile broadened and her hand shook as she took the cup froar Did the ether in his suit and pressed shirt? He made her feel like a wilted flower by comparison

‘Surely it’s not that bad,’ he said

‘For you,’ she relumly ‘I still have to work out what to tell Christos’

‘Don’t tell hi’

‘Easy for you to say’

‘Then tell hiame’

‘Unfortunately he would believe the latter of that bizarre statement but not the former’