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‘She’s gone to bed’ She indicated behind him with a stiff tilt of her head

His room

His whole body stiffened Didi was sleeping in his rooer warred within hih the mix like a restless serpent in a storestured her inside ‘Then I suggest you do the saht’

‘Not until you identify yourself to my satisfaction How do I know you’re not here to do my sister harm?’

He pulled out his driver’s licence, flashed it at her ‘I told you—I live here You want to speak to Security yourself, be uest Otherwise do as I ask Leave Didi to me I assure you, she’s perfectly safe’ If he didn’t throttle her first

But the wo in his expression because a se of her mouth, as if she’d just discovered a delicious secret ‘Didi didn’t tell me she had a man in her life’

His jaw clenched at that but he aih stiff lips ‘Goodnight, Veronica’

Still clutching her toiletry bag and her innate poise—and the sht,’ and closed the door

Cameron let out the breath he hadn’t realised had backed up in his lungs Steeling hiht of Didi’s tartan pyjama-clad body in his bed, he strode to his roo her

He didn’t knock, shoving at the door with an open-handed thwack The scent of his soap and Melbourne’s glireeted him He was halfway across the room, arm outstretched to wake her, before he realised that she wasn’t in bed That the sound he could hear wasn’t his blood pounding through his ears, it was running water, and that the fragrance billowed froh the door of the en-suite

The partially open door