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‘What’s so funny?’ he demanded suspiciously

What was so funny? Ethan was the o to bed with, and she was the woo to bed with—that was funny, wasn’t it?

‘I asked you a question, Savannah’

The easy atmosphere that had so briefly existed between thee

‘Is it my scars?’ he pressed ‘Do they make you nervous?’

Ethan had read her all wrong, Savannah realised He was so far off the mark, she shook her head in shock ‘Of course they don’t’ It was no use, because Ethan wasn’t listening

‘Is that why you’re trying so hard not to laugh?’ he demanded

‘I’ve told you, no!’ She held his gaze There must be no doubt over this She would be the first to adhtened her a little, but those feelings were all tied up in his worldliness contrasted with her own inexperienced sexual-self, and had not the slightest connection with his scars If he thought she was shallow enough to be intiust at the thought As far as she was concerned, Ethan’s terrible scars were just a reest tree could be felled ‘I see the man, not the scars,’ she told him bluntly

In the confines of the lih sounded cruel and hard

That had to come from so to rise to the bait So, and to persuade Ethan she was ht her would take action, not words She had been raised on a working far her hands dirty and wasn’t frightened of much

Just as well, Savannah reflected as Ethan turned aith a face like thunder to continue his conversation with the driver, because there was nothing easy about Ethan Alexander But whatever Ethan’s opinion of her, she would stand up for herself Perhaps he had learned thatthem both the opportunity to learn a little ht not be reassuring, but it hadn’t put her off Ethan either—in fact, quite the reverse

CHAPTER SIX

AS THEY approached the end of the journey they sat in silence, and Ethan could sense Savannah’s unease For all her excite what she had got herself into He had always been intuitive His mother had told him he was keenly tuned, close to the earth and all its mystery She’d told him that before the crystal sphere she’d kept next to her bed told her to marry for the fourth tied her not to do it, believing it would be a disastrous nored hie had been a disaster So much for his un the day his new ‘daddy’ had arrived back froone away to school that September, and had been the only boy in his class relieved to be living away from home

And as he reer in his eyeline in the by career had been ended he wished he could be unblemished inside and out? Was it because Savannah Ross was too innocent to know the ugliness inside him?

Realising he was only paying attention to half the things his driver was telling hiain She looked so s all alone on a sea of creaht scale for a man his size, but she arfed by it And she was a distraction he couldn’t afford, he warned hi to remain aloof from her when they reached their destination