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An hour later, with another heavenly goure that today, in one of her umpteen fabulous new outfits, unlike on her arrival yesterday, she looked exactly the part for a swish hotel like this

She sailed out of the restaurant into the lobby

Xandros glanced towards the entrance to the hotel restaurant where, so the reception clerk had infor He had had a business lunch in the City, and noanted to head for the airport

A woh heels, her tall, elegant, long-legged figure cinched by a royal-blue waist-hugging fitted jacket with bracelet sleeves, and a narrow knee-length skirt A pale blue silk chiffon scarf flowed behind her as she walked and her slender throat was adorned with a double rope of pale blue crystal beads Long, lush blonde tresses waved back from her faceher perfectly made-up, beautiful face

Stavros’s daughter

Rosalie Jones

Shock jarred Xandros—the same level of shock he’d felt yesterday, when she’d announced her name to him, but for the totally opposite reason now

Because now, as she sailed up to him, there was only one word to describe her

Stunning Juststunning

Unbelievably so

His eyes raked over her, taking in every detail of her aht, but nowin all her new finery, with her face perfectly ure fully revealed in that close-fitting outfit and her legs lengthened with those four-inch heelsnow she was a revelation

A stunning revelation

Deep inside, he felt that saht when he’d seen her in her towelling robe It was starting up in hily But this time, in the face of that incredible full-on beauty of hers, there was no chance of silencing it Nor, he realised, did he want to What he wanted was to enjoy the sheer, rawfemale walk up to hi, and a primeval satisfaction filled hiuest or staff, it was hi towards

It felt good And he didn’t care why

She stopped in front of him ‘So, are we off?’ she enquired briskly