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And she left the roo her throat at the ruination of all her dreams

Xandros sat at his desk, unable to concentrate on what he should be doing—going about the daily routine of his business life Instead an i at his conscience

The way he’d just driven off last night as Stavros’s unwitting daughter had been sed up into her father’s oppressivein there with all her dreams about some fairy-tale reunion with a father ould ely and welcome her into his life

His mouth set Well, she’d have been disabused of that by now Presumably they’d met, and she’d realised just what kind of a man Stavros was

She’ll be devastated

The words were in his head and he could not stop the back his chair and getting to his feet He flicked the interco out for a while, that she should cancel his scheduledwith his finance director

Reluctance warred with his conscience No, he did not want to have anything more to do with that toxic set-up, and, no, Stavros Coustakis’s English daughter was not his concern, let alone his responsibility, but for all that

I can’t just abandon her like that

That was the brute truth of it Like it or not, he should have given her soe herself in illusions of some kind of heavenly reunion He should at least check that she waswell, coping with the situation

Tenout of central Athens His plan was vague, but it focussed on calling at the Coustakisthat she was okaysalving his conscience

And most definitely he would not let his eyes rest once ly revealed beauty that had so unexpectedly ee of his first sight of her He crushed the thought instantly, before it could take any shape at all

No, that was not the reason he was checking up on Rosalie Jones Not at all

Rosalie alking Rapidly, blindly and with one purpose only: to find some kind of public transport—a bus, a traet her to the airport Where she would raid her s to buy the cheapest possible ticket back to the UK

Because anything else was impossible Just impossible!