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He gave the slightest shrug of his broad shoulders ‘That can easily be reement to provide sufficient time to set you at your ease with me’

He reached to take up his coffee cup again, levelled his unreadable gaze on her

‘I aether Two years at the et ant froes of our tiht have eous e of our own volition and go our separate ways thereafter’

He took another draught of his coffee, finishing it and setting down the cup He looked directly at her

‘Well? What is your answer?’

She sed There was a hts, conflicting e about chaotically This couldn’t be real, could it? This al they marry?

Marry so I can save Greymont—

She felt a hollowing inside her That had been exactly what she herself had conteley that she would do She had seriously conte commitment to a

But Nikos Tramontes only wants two years

Two brief years of her life

Sharply, she looked at him

‘You say no longer than two years?’

He nodded, concealing an inner sense of triu his offer serious consideration That she was tempted

‘I think that will suffice, don’t you?’

It would for him—he was confident of that Not just because when they parted he would be secure in the social position that ive him, but because he knew from his liaison with Nadya that he was unlikely to be bored with the wo Diana St Clair in his life, his bed, would be perfectly acceptable