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‘You’re uest and therefore my responsibility,’ he said obliquely

Her eyes met his briefly and then she turned back to the cases on the bed and kept packing

Aidan felt like throwing his hands in the air What had she expected him to say? That he wanted to protect her? Wanted to look after her? That he was jealous? ‘Look, I’rowled

‘Why not?’

He took a deep breath ‘I don’t want to get into it but—’

‘Is it Martin Ellery? I heard Ben mention him over lunch and you didn’t look the same from then on’

Aidan felt dull colour leach into his face He thought he’d hidden his reaction to the news that Martin Ellery was hts to the AFL—the biggest TV contract in Australia and the one jewel in his father’s crown that Ellery hadn’t snatched away fourteen years ago

‘Ellery doesn’t matter,’ he said curtly

Blatantly disbelieving hio by, she turned away again and this time Aidan did throw his hands in the air Da here?

He took a calest suitcase and tried another tack It was either that or shove the cases off the bed and lay her on it Soht in a moment of black humour, he didn’t think she’d be too receptive to that

‘I read the notes you took on the school’

She paused before zipping a smaller case ‘Please, I don’t want to knohat you think’

Unable to stand by and watch her leave he gripped her shoulders and spun her towards hiood’

She shrugged him off and moved to the‘You don’t have to say that I know you planned to send a professional out’

‘I don’t say things I don’t er had skimped on the teacher’s quarters but you picked up the fact that the children needto send in a surveyor—and I still will for the structural soundness of the building—but he wouldn’t have picked up on all the areas the er had tried to cut back on’

Her brows drew together ‘Why would he try to cut back on a school? That’s detrimental to the kids’

‘He’s a in under budget to impress me’

She pulled a face ‘That makes sense, I suppose’