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It took her several seconds for her slightly unsteady hands to locate her glasses from the table where she had put them She slid them back onto her nose and his dark, fatally handsome face slipped into focus

She was teain

Rolasses he had seen a red welt across the bridge of her nose, livid against the pallor of her skin It was obviously caused by those stupid glasses It was a crime to hide such beautiful eyes behind thick lenses Didn’t she know glasses were et paper-thin lenses and attractive frames these days

‘Those spectacles are too big and heavy for your face,’ he censured in a gruff, distracted voice

Scarlet shook her head ruefully ‘I know, but five years ago they were the height of fashion’ She gave a wry grin ‘It was my funky period,’ she explained drily ‘I can’t wait to put the in,’ she confessed

‘Then why don’t you?’

‘They won’t let me wear my lenses untilout for a new pair’

‘Corneal abrasion! You injured your eyes?’

‘The right one’ She lifted her hand towards her right eye, which showed no visible signs of the injury she spoke of ‘A freak accident—a really A baby hit me in the face with a rattle, would you believe?’

Most people thought it a when she explained the circuan, it seemed His lips thinned in disapproval and his nostrils flared

‘This aht’

Her expression reflected her opinion of his bizarre pursuit of the subject ‘Well, I wouldn’t go that far…’