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“This isn’t about us, Ronan It’s about Beast, and you can’t have him You don’t deserve him”

Before he could counter, she slammed the door in his face and Ronan heard the lock snap into place Stunned, he stared at the closed door for a long minute He could hardly believe it No one shut a door in Ronan Connolly’s face, for pity’s sake

He heard her inside, cooing to Beast, assuring hih to have Ronan pounding on her door again But he thought better of it Let her believe she’d won this battle It would et around later

Still furious, he turned sharply, stomped on the fallen roses and left

But he’d be back Connollys didn’t kno to quit

“It’s all right, sweetie,” Laura said to Beast as she scrubbed the top of his head and scratched behind his ears “The one”

Laura was tre by the time she heard Ronan’s sports car fire up and zoou for weeks But actually seeing hiht it would be

Looking up into those dark blue eyes of his, she’d watched them flash with temper and had been just as stirred as when she’d seen theleam

Tall, broad-shouldered, with chestnut hair that showed just a hint of red in the sunlight, he wore business suits and jeans with the sa and irresistible And apparently two months apart hadn’t dimmed her reaction to him at all

From the moment he had first walked into her real estate office several o, Laura had known that she was in trouble Oh, she and her sister had sold homes to unspeakably rich people before, but there had never been the slightest temptation to fit herself into their world With Ronan, it had been different from the start

Everything in her still wanted hih her mind knew better He’d been out of her life for two months and that was as it should be After all, she had known going into thataffair that it couldn’t last He was rich; she wasn’t He was Ferrari and she was Volkswagen He lived in Ireland And she’d be staying in California

She sighed a little, then looked down at the dog each of the, at least a hundred pounds and his black hair was full and shaggy, clu across his eyes No one knehat ht be, but privately, Laura had often thought a pony e

Now, Beast looked up at her as if sy with the situation, and Laura smiled