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‘And if I tell you that the rest of the world will put a very different construction on your staying here with me?’

‘But I thought you didn’t care about gossip?’ she countered

‘I care how it affects you’

‘Froned to your record co sensation, which means I must appear to the world to be innocent?’

Ethan took her barbed coht have expected It was alot theher with so ti onto one hip then, he thumbed his chin as the expression in his eyes slowly cooled from passion to wry reflection ‘That’s a very cynical attitude for a young girl to have’

‘How many times—?’

‘Must you tell irl I think you are?’ he supplied in a low voice that strummed her senses

‘If I’m cynical,’ Savannah countered, ‘Surely you’re the last person who should be surprised?’

‘I’ to say this as clearly as I can’ Ethan’s voice held a crushing note of finality ‘I don’t want you here Please leave now’

She waited a moment too, and then said, ‘No’

‘No?’

‘No,’ Savannah repeated ‘You’re askingin your world, or easy into be your doormat’

‘Have you quite finished?’ he demanded

‘I’ve barely started,’ she assured hi this if she couldn’t persuade Ethan to see her in a different light

And she couldn’t He pointed to the door