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‘Maybe, but it’s never gone wrong before,’ Poppy seethed ‘How can theyyou can do Offer to pay them extra to’

‘Poppy,’ Jah she were a child too young to grasp what he was saying ‘There are no empty roo another that she’s already been forced to give up her staff room and share with so Believe ’

It was on the tip of Poppy’s tongue to tell him that if that was the case then there was no way she was staying But then she-re him an opportunity to prove how unprofessional she really was and she forced the impulsive words back

Ja the register and taking possession of their pass-cards

‘We ht as well find our oay,’ he told Poppy ‘God kno long we’d have to wait for a porter’

Like her, Ja She just hoped that the hotel’s laundry facilities were better organised and rily as she followed James towards the nearest bank of lifts

The modern part of the complex had been built around an atrium and as the lift took them upwards they could look down past the open balconies to the greenery and splashing fountains below them

Although the coiven the title of spa it did not actually possess any natural hot springs or spa waters of its own, the terhtly looser sense to eent treatimes and holistic alternative therapies

Their room was on one of the upper floors, the silence as they stepped out of the lift onto the polished

‘This way,’ James instructed her Their room was halfway down the corridor and Poppy waited whilst James opened the door, and then froze with shock as she followed him inside and stared in white-faced disbelief at the roole, solitary double bed

A double bed

She looked at James, then back at the bed, announced flatly, ‘I don’t believe this’

‘Correct , Poppy,’ James told her smoothly, ‘but, as the company’s official translator, wouldn’t it normally fall within your field of operations to provide correct foreign translations for those departht need them?’

‘You knoould,’ Poppy agreed irritably ‘But—’

‘In that case you would then be the person responsible for providing a correctly worded translation for this booking’

‘If I had been asked for one, yes,’ Poppy agreed ‘But—’

‘And I think I ari wasthis conference with Chris’

Poppy stared at hi

‘Yes, I did think I would be coreed furiously, ‘but that does notso that Chris and I would be forced to share a roo It was made by fax whilst I ay on holiday, and if you think for one s forfor anyone, I would ever stoop to doing so like thisthat I would ever try to forceor manipulate a man any man, but most especially one I I cared about to—’

She couldn’t go on, her words abruptly suspended by the force of her emotions

‘I can’t stay here in this room with you,’ she protested huskily when she could trust herself to speak again ‘I can’t and I—’