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‘Unless you’d prefer me to leave you to the mercy of the press?’

Savannah’s heart turned over as Ethan looked at her How childish he must think her Women would scratch each other’s eyes out for the chance to be with Ethan like this, and yet she had sounded so apprehensive at the prospect of staying with him ‘I don’t want to be left to that pack of hounds,’ she confessed ‘But I’ve put you out so much already’

‘So a little more trouble won’t hurt me,’ Ethan reassured her dryly

Maybe his lack of enthusiasested was a sensible solution And his place in Tuscany sounded so romantic—such a pity it would be wasted on them ‘Are you sure it wouldn’t be easier for you if I just fly home?’

‘If you do that you won’t be able to take advantage of the security I can provide It would take et the saland, which is why I’ve ements for your parents’

‘Arrangeements?’ Savannah interrupted anxiously

‘I decided a cruise would take the eyes’

‘A cruise?’ She gasped ‘Are you serious?’

‘Why wouldn’t I be serious?’

‘You mean you booked a holiday for them?’

‘It’s the best solution I could co fabulously expensive trips was nothing unusual for him

Savannah couldn’t stop s ‘You have no idea what this will mean to them I can’t remember the last time they went away—or even if they ever have been away from the farm’

‘The farm?’

‘I live on a farm’ She shook her head, full of excitement ‘You must have seen my address on file?’

‘Lots of addresses have the word “far’