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She didn’t want to wear clothes which ure, nor to plaster her face in make-up—which she hadn’t a clue how to apply properly But Rupert had read her the Riot Act and so she had reluctantly coreed to jettison her normal coh she could barely walk in theloss, she felt like a fraud, but one as not in any position to object—because how could she possibly do that when she had placed herself in such an unwise situation?

Her boss was ignorant of the fact that she had behaved like a coer to kiss her in a way that still made her cheeks burn when she reer had turned out to be a royal prince A guest of honour ould shortly be arriving with all his royal entourage

A lying and duplicitous prince, she reminded herself bitterly—and one who clearly found it funny to unleash his potent sex appeal and to amuse himself with a naïve and stupid woaot his kicks?

After he had walked out of the hotel last week it had taken only olden eyes had not been a humble decorator—but Prince Xaviero himself A fact which had been confir search on the Internet, where his official portrait had flashed up in front of her disbelieving eyes Yet the sternly handsome face which had stared back at her from the computer screen had seemed worlds away from the denim-clad man who had kissed her with such careless sensuality

On the official website of Zaffirinthos Xaviero had been pictured dressed in so a dark jacket with several medals pinned to the front of it His black hair had looked tamed instead of ruffled and his lips had been hard and uns And try as she did to resist, Cathy hadn’t been able to help drinking in his re herself that he had deliberately deceived her

Dragging her eyes away from his portrait, she’d clicked onto the history of the island instead Zaffirinthos A beautiful, crescent-shaped paradise set in the Ionian Sea—close to Greece and at no great distance froold and other precious minerals, and the di Cesere family was fabulously wealthy—with property and business interests in just about every part of the globe

With one final fraught glance at the unfa back at her fro the inevitable It was tio and face the man she had kissed so iAnd then what? Pray that he wouldn’t inform her boss that she had behaved so unprofessionally—and leave her to fade into the background with her e memories

It was a sunny suolden lanes to the hotel Although it was still early, she could see a big shiny black lisentry at the doors

‘I work here,’ she said in reply to the rather hostile gaze which was levelled at her as she approached

‘Identification?’ he clipped out

Fishing around in her handbag, Cathy produced her driving licence and gave it to him and stood while a pair of eraph Eventually, he nodded and stepped back to allow her through

Bodyguards clearly didn’t need ht wryly as she made her way inside But once she’d substituted her trainers for the dreaded high-heeled shoes and locked away her handbag she looked around— effect a little care and attention could have

All the walls had been painted a pale sienna colour—so that the whole place looked bigger and cleaner Cobwebs and dust had been removed fros like floating showers of diae bowls of floere dotted around the place, and they seeest difference of all Blue irises and white roses added scent, beauty and focus to the downstairs rooms

Yesterday, she’d yptian cotton sheets which had been sent down specially froers over their crisp surface, she had marvelled at how uest Soft new velvet drapes hanging froed the look of the roo had been updated Even the ancient old bathroo new top-of-the-range version