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‘I mean, have you had a chance to look around this place? It’s like soazines! It’s hard to believe that anyone actually ever uses this lodge Everything’s just soshiny and expensive!’

‘Money iht of all the other apartments and houses he owned, scattered in cities across the world fro He even had a villa on an exclusive Caribbean island He hadn’t been there for at least a couple of years

Milly leaned on the table, cupped her chin in the palht idly, with even , dark and thick And there was a certain arrogance about him She should find it a co that Robbie had had his fair share of arrogance, and what a creep he had turned out to be But Adonis’s arrogance was somehow different Just look at the way he had stuck his feet on that chair

‘No’ she adreat I wish I hadI have no job to return to ‘But I was brought up to believe that there were s in life My parents died in a car accident when I was eight and randmother raised o round, but that never bothered me I think people create the lives they want to live and they do that without the help of money’

She sighed ‘Stoptoo lar, it’s kind of nice having so, but Okay, enough of me Is this the first time you’ve worked for the Ra that you called them by their first names’

Lucas thought of Alberto and Julia Raht of working for them In actual fact, Alberto had worked for his father Lucas had inherited him when his father had died and, because of the personal connection, had resisted sacking the man, as borderline incoodmother to one of their children

‘We go back a way,’ he said, skirting round the truth

‘Thought so’

‘Why is that?’

Milly laughed and it felt as though this was the first ti tih there had been a moment or tith her friends post-trauhter, probably

‘Because you’ve got your feet on the chair and you’ve just dumped that empty bottle on the kitchen counter! Sandra told n that I’d stepped foot in this lodge when I left I ht even have to wipe all the surfaces just in case they find erprints somewhere’