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Rosalie stared ‘I don’t understand Why is it generous?’

‘You are generous,’ said Xandros’sof the predicament your predecessor finds herself in’

‘Mymy predecessor?’ Rosalie’s voice was hollow

‘Of course,’ Kyria Lakaris was saying ‘Ariadne was engaged to my son until the moment she disappeared’

The world see in it Everything except one single word

‘Engaged?’

It fell like a ton weight from Rosalie’s lips She stared at Xandros’s h her

Kyria Lakaris looked at her frowningly ‘Did you not know?’ she was saying ‘The wedding was all set—it was a great blow to hiement’

‘They were engaged?’ Rosalie could only echo the word again Inside, shock was detonating, reaching all her limbs so that she eak from it ‘Hehe told me that Ariadne refused point-blank to entertain our father’s obsession—’

But Kyria Lakaris was shaking her head in negation ‘My dear—no Just the opposite She was perfectly willing to marry Xandros’

‘But XandrosXandros said he would never be manipulated by asping, snatching at all the things Xandros had said to her

Hisher with the gesture ‘That was after Ariadne panicked Pre-wedding nerves—I’ to London, I am quite, quite sure Ariadne would have seen sense and coret was audible in the older woman’s voice as she went on, ‘They were ideally suited to each other, your half-sister and my son’

Then, in front of Rosalie’s stricken eyes, Kyria Lakaris’s face brightened

‘And now they can be once more!’ she exclaimed

Rosalie stared ‘I don’t understand’ she said slowly, each word dragged fronant So how can she and Xandros everever get back together?’