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His ames? If so, his only purpose could be to flex his power just for the sake of it After all, he’d got exactly what he’d held out for—a Lakaris son-in-lahy the delay now? At this rate getting the er than Xandros had wanted it to take

On the other hand His expression changed It was an ill wind that blew no one any good at all

A delay will give er with Rosalie

His dark eyes glinted appreciatively

That would definitely be a bonus—no doubt about it

One of the things that was exacerbating his frustration with his father-in-law’s dilatory co-operation over expediting the er between the it happen were keeping hier than he wanted

Increasingly, he wanted to be spending ti the most of her while he had her—before they had to part coo their oays

The froas back in his eyes again That was a pretty negative way of putting it

And why be negative about so that’s a positive?

Because of course it was entirely a positive that theirs was to be a te the Lakaris-Coustakis er a reality

It was a positive that when that happened he and Rosalie would dissolve their land, to a co hiain

Except His frown deepened as he sat at his desk, staring blankly at his coht held little appeal

Instead, his thoughts went back to the previous weekend It had been good to take Rosalie to that birthday celebration—surprisingly good to realise that he, too, was now one of the leton Rosalie had seeh he’d heard her half-sister’s name mentioned he had forestalled any deterioration of the conversation into potentially tactless discussion of Ariadne

Anyway, it hadn’t needed his arm possessively around Rosalie to show all his friends the convincing proof that Ariadne was history and why They’d all been able to see hoay he was by Rosalie—and not just because of her stunning beauty, or the way he only had to look at her to want to sweep her off to bed

I enjoy her company