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‘But you never will forget again,’ she insisted passionately ‘Not now the lights have been switched on’

He gave her a look that stopped her in her tracks It was a look intended to warn her not to go this far again The contact between the for soht have happened as Savannah looked up at hihed discreetly at that moment It was only then that the rational side of him clicked into focus, and he took a proper look at Savannah and realised how exhausted she looked She was still wearing his old shirt over the ill-fitting gown She must have felt embarrassed, dressed that hen he’d introduced her to his staff, but not for a moment had she let it show Her attention had been all on theht toMs Ross a robe, please?’ he asked his housekeeper

He wanted Savannah covered up Her pale skin beneath the neck of his shirt was ling frole, and she was scarcely taller than a child She couldn’t have eaten since that , he remembered ‘Take a bath,’ he said briskly, ‘And then use that phone over there to call down for so to eat’

‘Won’t you eat so too?’ she asked with concern

‘Maybe’ He dis this encounter It occurred to hi it

‘Where will you eat?’ she pressed as he prepared to leave

He hadn’t given it a ht ‘I’ll take dinner inthat that hat he usually did

‘In your roorew contrite ‘Sorry It’s none of my business where you eat’

No, it isn’t, he al of her other comments since they’d arrived, but the fact that she looked so pale held him back

Fortunately his housekeeper returned at that moment with the robe, which put a halt to further conversation

He took that as his cue ‘Goodnight, Savannah Sleep well’

‘I’ll see you in the ?’ Her eyes ide, her expression frank

‘Perhaps’ With her innocent enthusiasm she made it hard for him to remain distant

‘For breakfast?’ she pressed

‘Ah…’ He paused with his hand on the door, as if to say he was a s to do than to entertain a young woman ‘We’ll see’