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‘It would take more than Sancia to scare me off’

‘Yet you actually thought I could be about to dump you?’ An ebony brow quirked in wonderment ‘What makes you so et to you because I heard that you were upset’

Jemima stiffened ‘Who said I was upset?’

‘I promised not to name names,’ Luciano revealed

‘I wasn’t upset yesterday,’ Jeh soe’

‘Especially when the groom is someone like me,’ Luciano slotted in without hesitation ‘Soe was a disaster and that his first child wasn’t his child’

Jemima wrinkled her nose as he walked her up the rear staircase she had never used before ‘But I sort of understand you keeping quiet about that, although that doesn’tthat secretive’

‘And the prospect offor a woroom refuses to admit that he loves you,’ Luciano told her in a rush shorn of the smallest eloquence ‘That wasn’t just secretive, that was stupid, because if you’d kno hed in Sancia’s face and I wouldn’t have been panicked into rushing halfway across the world to assureto desert me’

‘I wouldn’t desert youor Nicky,’ Jeh what he had said ‘You love me?’

‘Insanely’ A flood of dark colour accentuated his high cheekbones ‘The thought of life without you downright terrifieswithout you has proved a chastening experience I’ve neverso much in my life’

Je a very private conversation in the corridor and she walked on a few steps and thrust open his bedroom door ‘Never missed anyone’

Luciano leant back against the door to close it fast behind him ‘Jemima, does it take a haroaned ‘I phone you every hour on the hour and you think that’s normal? I invite your whole family here to keep you company so that you can’t even look at another et suspicious, piccolo mia? You think I don’t realise that wet blanket, Steven, is sitting out there waiting for you, hoping like hell that I’ll screw up and lose you?’