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His face had closed Shutting her out as if an iron gate had slammed down across it

‘There is no purpose in further exchange Go and pack’

He alking away, picking up the house phone on the sideboard, uttering the brief words necessary to set in motion her departure

‘I have work to do,’ he said

His voice was as curt as it had been to the person at the front desk He walked over to where he’d tossed his briefcase, picked it up Walked into the spare bedroom

She heard the door snap shut

Then there was silence

Silence all around her

CHAPTER NINE

BLACK, COLD ANGER filled Nikos Like dark ink, it filled his veins, his vision His gaze, just as dark, was fixed on the blackening cloudscape beyond the unscreened porthole of the first-class cabin of the jet, speeding into the night as far and as fast as it could take him

Australia would do—the other side of the world from Diana

Diana who froenda

Unlike his bride His oh-so-beautiful ice maiden, his look-but-don’t-touch bride, who’d never intended, even froe work

Over and over in his head, like a rat in a trap, he heard that last exchange with her Telling hiht of him What she wanted of him

What she did not want