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He rener shades he wore and tucked them into the breast pocket of his jacket The dark, wintry eyes that surveyed her coldly were even less reassuring than the mirrored lenses had been!

It had been ten days since she’d last seen hi? He could not have altered since then, but the hard angles on his face did seeht But his greyhound-lean frame had not carried any excess flesh the last time Perhaps it was the black leather jacket and tailored dark trousers that hugged the er and leaner and just generally harder

If he’d been auditioning for the part of a dangerous but fatally attractive gangster he’d have got the job on the spot! The sprinkling of designer stubble across his jaw and hollow cheeks only intensified the aura of eous person

The discovery that it was hard toinnocently up at you did not improve Roy pyja, baby smooth contours of hera liep????e

Even if she didn’t knoas the boy’s father, she sure as hell knew she wasn’t the mother! Besides, as it his mother had said?

‘Ignorance is no defence’ Scarlet Smith—if that was her name?—was about to find out it was no defence in his eyes either

His son was growing up without a father—that wasn’t so that had happened by accident Oh, yes, there were a lot of questions he wanted answered

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For all he knew, everything about her was a lie The curly knot scrunched casually on the top of her head, which made her look simultaneously vulnerable and sexy, was probably contrived to do just that

‘What the hell kept you?’ he growled ‘Open the door’

‘I was on the phone’ Scarlet’s beleaguered brain having finally accepted the fact that it was actually Ro out in the hallway and not soan tohere? ‘What are you…how…?’ She stopped, the blood draining from her face as a possible explanation presented itself to her

‘The Bradleys sent you’ Her worst fears were realised when he didn’t deny it

The Bradleys were exactly the sort of people he would know

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