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Can I do it? Marry Nikos Tramontes?

The cheque in her hand demanded an answer Accept or reject it Accept or reject the ned it

The phone on her desk rang, startling her It was her architect, politely, tactfully enquiring whether she was yet in a position to set a start date for the work that needed to be done Work that could not start without Nikos to pay for it

Her hand clenched, her signet ring with the St Clair crest on her little finger catching on thea decision The decision she had to er If she did not restore Greymont it would decay into ruins or she would have to sell Either way, it would be lost

I can’t be the St Clair who loses Greymont I can’t betray my father’s devotion and sacrifice I can’t!

The offer that Nikos Tramontes had put in front of her was the best she could ever hope to find It was a gift from heaven

Nothing else can save Greymont

She could feel her heart thu, suddenly, at the enor

It will be all right—it will be all right

She heard the words in her head, calently

Slowly—very, very slowly—she breathed out Then she spoke ‘Yes,’ she said to her architect ‘I think we can now make a start’

CHAPTER FOUR

THE WEDDING VENUE WAS the ballroom of an historic London hotel, with impeccable upper-crust ambience and timelessly stylish art deco décor, and it was packed with people

Apart frouests ere Nikos’s business acquaintances, Diana had rounded up everyone fro her in order to lish society, based on centuries of land ownership and ‘old ether, interether for ever It was a closed club, open only to those born into it Or to those who, like her new husband, had married into it

She was glad so many had accepted her invitation—it ain she’d struck with thesure he got one, in return for funding the repairs now actively underway at Greymont