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The helicopter picked them up at two in the afternoon Poppy had packed for both her and hertaken to the clinic Jasmine was nervous and not entirely sober when they boarded and fairly shaky on her legs by the tihter’s arm for support

Gaetano, however, didn’t even notice Jas Poppy stroll towards him with that lithe, lazy walk of hers She wore black and red plaid leggings and a black tee, her hair falling in wind-tousled curls round her heart-shaped face He saw other lance at her and it annoyed hiave her a distinction that he couldn’t quite put a label on but one quality she had in spades and that was sex appeal, he acknowledged gri to et accusto, not one single inti to take place between them This was business and he was no soft touch

The staff nated to pick up Jasmine intercepted Poppy and herand tears in their eyes, for the guidelines of Jasmine’s treatment plan had warned that the clinic preferred there to be no contact between their patients and fa the first feeeks of treatment That hy Poppy’s first view of Gaetano was blurred because she had been watching herthat she was doing the best thing possible for her troubled parent, she still felt horribly guilty about it

‘Poppy’ Gaetano e of her luggage trolley

His lean, darkly handsolih her detachner jeans and a casual white and blue striped shirt that accentuated the glow of his bronzed skin colour For a split second, Poppy simply stared in search of a flaw in his classically beautiful face At so it and, connecting with dark golden eyes the sa honey, she suddenly felt so hot she was vaguely surprised that people didn’t rush up with fire extinguishers to put out the blaze Her heartbeat thus inexplicably ebbed A little tweaking sensation in her pelvis caused her to shift her feet while her nipples pinched full and tight below her tee

‘G-Gaetano’ she staht a desperate rearguard reaction to what she belatedly realised was a very dangerous susceptibility to Gaetano’s netic attraction

Gaetano was taking in the tenting pro what colour they were, arousal h his blood as he studied her lush pink ht back toback to full attention ‘You’ve got work to do this evening’

‘Work?’ Poppy parroted in surprise as she fell into step by his side

‘I’ve made up some prompt sheets for you to cover the sort of details you would be expected to know about enuine relationship,’ he explained ‘Once you o tomorrow’

‘Toiving her any time at all to practise her new role or even prepare for it

‘It’s Rodolfo’s seventy-fifth birthday and he’s throwing an afternoon party Obviously ill be attending it as an engaged couple,’ Gaetano explained smoothly

Nerves clenched and twisted in Poppy’s uneasy tue but she had nohim in the distance at the hall when he had still lived there She had known his late wife, Serafina, well, however, and rerandmother had been a lovely woman, who treated everyone the saside Jas that, Poppy knew exactly what she would be doing in terift for the older man’s birthday

Her cases were stowed in the sleek expensive car Gaetano had brought to the airport Da about the vehicle because he was a car buff, but Poppy was too busythat Gaetano had taken the time to co himself

His phone rang as they left the airport behind It was in hands-free mode and the voluble burst of Italian that banished the silence in the car only hen up, she told herself firiven her the equivalent of a high-paid job and she planned to do the best she could to h expectations but secretly, deep down inside where only she kne she felt, Poppy was totally terrified of doing so Gaetano down