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Gnawing at her bottouests out to the air-conditioned buses that would take them to the airstrip Then climbed in with them

‘Where the hell is she?’ Ari deer paled and reached for his phone again

‘I’uest events’

‘You think? Try her phone again’

The retfully, Ari curbed the need to punch a hole in the desk

‘Giving your staff hell?’ came a droll voice from behind him

‘Not now, Sakis’

‘Why? What’s wrong?’

‘I’ to find Perla No one’s seen her in the last hour’

‘And this is worrying because?’

Ari pursed his lips ‘She’s supposed to be at the villa, having lunch’

He looked up as the assistant er hurried forward ‘Mr Pantelides, I’ve just been told by one of the drivers that Mrs Lowell joined the sky-diving guests’

For a moment, he couldn’t compute the information ‘She what?’

The voices that responded were drowned out by the blood thundering in his ears When his arrabbed in a firm hold and he was propelled down a hallway, he did not protest

He heard a door shut behind him seconds before Sakis pushed him into a seat

‘Talk toon?’

He speared both hands into his hair and tried to ste She can’t possibly have gone sky-diving’

‘Yeahthat’s what your man said’

He tried to s ‘Wellshe can’t have’

‘Why not? If she’s qualified—’

‘Sakis She’s pregnant’

His brother’s mouth dropped open seconds before the colour leached from his face They both leapt for the phone on his desk but Ari was quicker ‘I need your fastest driver out front in the next ten seconds’

Sakis wrenched the door open They passed Theo in the hallway and one dark look from Ari and his brother stemmed whatever wisecrack he’d been about to utter