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Froht happen to her, each and every ti to remember just what had happened between them and how she

‘I don’t care what it takes or where I have to sleep tonight—I aain,’ she told him shakily

The s of his teeth al e and destroy her

‘What’s wrong?’ he asked her silkily ‘Afraid that you ht discover that it isn’t really Chris you want after all and that your body—?’

‘No’ Poppy denied quickly—too quickly? she wondered miserably as she saw the look in James’s eyes That wasn’t the reason why she didn’t want to share that bed with hiht, she reassured herself as she made her way down to the conference hall Of course it wasn’t How could it be?

She knew that it was another man she had really wanted, another body she had really yearned and ached for even ifeven though

She sed painfully, unable to deny the unwanted and tor into Ja, still saying

‘Hey, are you all right?’

Poppy realised that she had actually closed her eyes and walked right into Gunther as she heard the concern in the young Ger anxiously at her

‘I’ about so’

‘There is no need to apologise,’ he told her with a charht have the chance to talk with you today—’

‘Don’t tell uist?’ Poppy teased, responding to the war, so events of the previous night ‘If you do, I certainly shan’t believe you,’ she added ‘Your English is very good’

‘Nonot that,’ he assured her ‘What I wanted to ask was if you would have dinner with ’

Have dinner with hi smile

‘I’d love to,’ she told hiht now she would be grateful for anything and anyone who kept her away from James

‘Poppy, if you’ve quite finished socialising’

Ja Poppy spin round guiltily, her nervous, ‘Jahtly puzzled as he watched her

‘We are here to work,’ Ja with a consortium of Japanese buyers in fifteen minutes and I’ll need you there to translate, and there are several points I need to run through with you first’

‘I’ll be with you in a round instead of ta in to the command she had heard in his voice

She ht be his cousin and an employee of the cohts Tilting her chin, she looked away from him and back to Gunther and told hiht, Gunther Would eight o’clock be all right?’

Instead of walking away and giving her the privacy to co German, James had waited for her like a jailer, deterrily as she fell into step beside hih the crush towards their own stand

‘If it’s his bed you’re thinking of sharing tonight, Poppy,’ Jauided her through the surging throng, ‘I should warn you that you won’t get ement have already had to put an extra bed in the roo!’

‘How dare you say that?’ Poppy hissed furiously at hi her feel so so cheap so ‘Just because just because I Just because of what happened last night,’ she told hi to go to to have sex with with anyone’