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She hadan explanation for so ludicrous a proposition

Her eyes went to thehis tall, lean frame, the same way he had that fatal day

How on earth had he persuaded her to marry him?

Why the hell did I agree? There must have been another way

for Aristides to accept Theo’s invest hat I did!

But she had, and that was all there was to it

You made your bed…

The echo of the fa of her sto but the literal one

Bed Sex Theo

That had been what had gone so hideously wrong in their brief, disastrous e And it had been entirely and totally Theo’s fault

If he’d just bloody left me alone…

But he hadn’t And so, without the shadow of doubt, without the slightest sliver of any other possibility, this whole ugly, vile business was his fault

The e up in her since he had dropped the cheque for her ain Powerful, unstoppable—and now roiling in her like a black tide

Her chin went up Theo was on his feet

His face was tight and taut His eyes dark with cold, icy anger