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‘And you think a divorce a couple of years down the road is less of a disappointement?’

‘At least he’ll believe I tried’

‘And of course your ulti reen eyes ski to his lean, darkly handsome features in wonderment ‘I can’t believe how ambitious you are’

‘The bank is y ‘Nothing gives me as much of a buzz as a profitable deal’

‘If I were to agree to thisand I’,’ Poppy warned in a rush, ‘ould the e take place?’

‘Next month to suit Rodolfo’s schedule and, for that matter, my own I won’t be here much over the next feeeks,’ Gaetano explained ‘I have a lot of pressing business to tie up before I can take the kind of honeymoon which Rodolfo will expect’

At that disconcerting reference to a honeyhtened in a band across Poppy’s brow and she lifted her fingers to press against her forehead ‘I’ive you an answer in the ’

Gaetano slid fluidly out of his seat and approached her ‘But you already know the answer’

Poppy settled angry green eyes on his lean, strong face ‘Don’t try to railroad me,’ she warned him

‘You like what I do to you,’ Gaetano husked with blazing confidence, running a teasing forefinger down over her cheek to stroke it along the soft curve of her full lower lip

In all her life Poppy had never beenthe still-swollen surface of her , Gaetano couldn’t touch any part of her body without every nerve ending standing to attention and screa fractured in her throat and sawed heavily in and out of her chest His fingertip slid into hershe laved it with her tongue, sucked it, watched his brilliant eyes s black lashes lower over burning glints of gold

‘Are you offering to letandher with that direct question