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I can’t possibly go back there!

How could she ever go back there? She could never do it to her uncle, for a start Since leaving Greece so precipitately she had not seen Aristides She had written hirettably, her e to Theo Theakis had ‘broken down irretrievably’ and left it at that She had not received a reply or any communication from her uncle since She knehy Theo had told hie

Her face darkened Why the hell had Theo gone and done that? There had been no need—no need whatsoever! What he had accused her of had never been ht have been in the gossiping circles of Athenian society it had reossip

Theo could just have told her uncle that theirto spell out why After all, that was precisely what they had been going to do anyway, by prearrange more…

Merely…

The word‘merely’ about it

Not for her and not, she knew—dear God, she knew!—for Theo, either

And noanted his revenge for it

Why had he waited this long?

The answer followed hard on the question Because you’ve handed hiot you over a barrel, and if you want the money you’ll have to do what he wants…

But she couldn’t It was as simple as that

She would never, ever subject herself to the humiliation he had planned for her Because that hat it would be, she knew—oh, how she knew! A calculated, assiduous, deliberate humiliation of her…

Her eyes narrowed suddenly Her body stilled

Why? Why does it have to be? That hat Theo would want—but why did she have to comply?

Why didn’t she si?