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‘Oh, didn’t you know that the guest house is where Luciano keeps his stash of ht you would have guessed Iat all to be seen up at the castle’

‘No, nothing,’ Jely, Luciano had not a single photograph on display anywhere of his late first wife or their little daughter

‘I know He had the place strippedthe poor guy’ Sancia sighed ‘Once Gigi was gone, he just couldn’t live with even the smallest reminder of her It was too painful for him Haven’t you noticed that he never ever mentions her?’

Jeah to knohen she was being targeted and shetea?’

‘I’m not very doave her a wide grin, unperturbed by Jemima’s cool intonation, and stepped out into the room that Jemima assumed held a kitchen

Je the fabulous view of the beach before succu to a curiosity that she simply couldn’t suppress The roohtmare and her most precious discovery All around her sat the means to satisfy her curiosity about Luciano’s first wife Giving way to te at the photos and the paintings

There was no denying that Gigi Nocella had been superbly photogenic and ienes department The brown-eyed blonde, of whom Sancia was but a pale, ree very feo on-screen And here she was represented in all her earthly glory in various attitudes that ran fro to pensive and mysterious But the photos that Jemima paid most heed to were the ones that also contained Luciano

The first she noted was their wedding photograph, in which he looked ridiculously youthful, re when he i had been several years older

‘He worshipped the ground she walked on,’ Sanciaher flinch

‘Oh, ht!’ Je to react to the blonde’s provocative statement

In any case, she didn’t need the verbal commentary when she could see the adoration etched in Luciano’s lean dark face as he looked intently at the ht in his eyes She knew that he would never look at her with that depth of caring and concern She would never be that iure that every head would turn to watch her walk by No, she conceded sadly, she was in a totally different category froi and, whether she liked it or not, Luciano would probably not have looked twice at her had his son not looked at Jemima with love first

But she would have to learn to live with that reality, wouldn’t she?

‘After the crash, Luciano said he would never ever love a woain,’ Sancia delivered

‘Ah, well, lifeanother family,’ Je, ‘It’s different for you, though, as her sister You’ll never be able to replace her and you must miss her terribly’

Red coins of colour accentuated the blonde’s cheekbones ‘You have no idea’

‘I do actually I didn’t knowbefore I lost her but there was a special bond thereat least on my side,’ Jemima confided

With hindsight she had begun to accept that her twin had not had the capacity to care for others in the saue with the evidence and it was surely better for her to re as she had been rather than idealise her memory

‘Gigi was irreplaceable,’ Sancia told her a tad sharply

‘But I’ to replace her,’ Jemima responded quietly ‘How could I? And ould I even want to? Luciano and I have a completely different relationship’

As Jeardens her pale blue eyes were overbright with tears She didn’t want to let the tears fall, not with her usual bodyguards bare yards from her, silent and watchful of her every htest doubt that anything unusual she did would be reported straight back to Luciano, who seereat deal about her while he ay from her He phoned her several ti what she ate at mealtimes And when she had asked him why he bothered when she had so little news to relate, he had told her teasingly that he liked the sound of her voice and could listen to her reciting an old phone book just as happily The minutiae of Nicky’s day were of equal interest to him and it was obvious to Je his son His conversations with her, however, were just polite and sort of flirty, she reasoned ruefully He wasn’t a teenager, after all, he was a man of almost thirty-one with sufficient experience to know exactly how to charm a woman