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Or was it because he had swept her out of her gri her here, to the land of her forebears, showering upon her this aain would she know hardship and deprivation?

She did not knohy—she knew only that it was so, and that in Xandros’s arined possible

Why it was, she left unspoken

Unanswered

Xandros crunched across the pebbles, his eyes going i form He felt desire quicken, as it always did, and he hunkered down beside her, indulging hi his hand over the soft swell of her midriff, exposed by her brief bikini

Her eyelids fluttered open and her face broke into a smile

He brushed her mouth with his ‘Can I te back

‘You can te smile

‘Now, there’s an offer!’

There was a glint in his eye as she sat up

Today was their last day on Kallistris—they would be heading back to Athens first thing to forward to it He never liked to leave Kallistris anyway, but now his reluctance was evenwith Rosalie, rather than go back in Athens, plunging head-first into all the work that er with Coustakis a reality entailed

He was conscious of the irony—after all, he had only er he wanted, and yet here he ishing he could havein long days at the office and would only see her in the evenings

Well, he would strive to et back here as

He helped her stand up now, and then stripped off to his swi sea