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It had left her here, now, in this hollow shell of a all Deuish in every way And she

Over the weeks that folloeeks that were spent at Nikos’s side, at his direction, on his require her social role as Mrs Nikos Tra just as the situation demanded, whether it was luncheon parties at Thames-side mansions, cocktail parties in Mayfair, dinners in top restaurants in London or attending the theatre or opera at Niko

s’s side Always she was there, always perfect, always s The perfect wife

Trapped in a ony

Nikos was angry He was angry all the tier that had possessed hi wife, his beautiful, untouchable wife—back to what she loved racious lifestyle that ith it, all that was important to her

As the weeks passed a kind of pall settled over hih the motions of life, but it was only for show Deadness was filling hi hio, that it was achieving nothing but tor her go seemed even worse

He could not face it

It wasn’t supposed to be like this!

Histhat he wanted! Everything Diana, his trophy wife, would grant him the place in the world his antly beautiful, so perfect a wife, would show him off to the world

And Diana, his ice maiden, would melt for him and him alone

And now she had brutally, callously rejected him—refused him

He felt that perpetual anger bite again Oh, he had his trophy wife, all right, chained to his side, but it was like dust and ashes in his mouth

She melted in ht that it was ht that after ere to each other those precious days? Those days that seeether—in body and in even more than that

Into his head came the memory of what he’d felt that day he’d rushed back to her fro with the Minister for Development, and the question that had forht be to hiht yet be to him

He had not answered the question But now he knew the answer for the savage mockery that it was