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He stepped farther away froainst them

‘I’m not emotional, Cara I’m never emotional about business’

‘Aidan, I—’

‘I thought your career was important to you’ He paced across the rooitation ‘I thought the whole purpose of you being here was to save your reputation and impress your father’

‘It was… ’ Cara sed, her head swi at the implication behind his less than enthusiastic response to her suggestion ‘I just … I thought …’ What had she thought? That this had becos? God, she felt like an idiot

He was rejecting her The man who always kept his promise had broken the one he had made to her…

Cara turned away and caught sight of her reflection in the glass s She was naked except for his shirt, but it wasn’t her attire that caught her attention It was her hair Brown Like her eyes It hadn’t been like that for five years She’d been every shade of blonde She’d been red, burgundy, black, pink…

She stared at her pensive expression, her neat hair

She looked like a Stepford wife in training

Wife?

A harsh sound of hu herher a real relationship He had done her a favour in bringing her to Fiji Then he’d decided to take some time out from his busy schedule and because he’d asked her to stay she had started spinning castles in the air

Oh, God She shook her head It was tiain If she didn’t, if she ith him now and waited for him to end it with her … She shuddered as pain lanced her heart Already it was uni would fade

How often as a young girl had she dressed in a pretty dress anticipating the arrival of her father at Chatsfield House and been quietly devastated when he had barely acknowledged her and kept on going He’d never drawn her into a hug, or swung her in the air, or tugged her onto his knee

She’d gotten over that, hadn’t she?

She heard Aidan curse behind her and she tried to clear theher mind wanted to curl up and die in

‘You’re right,’ she said woodenly ‘I don’t knohat I was thinking’