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‘It’s safer for you there’

‘Safer,’ Savannah repeated, shaking her head ‘There’s no compromise with you, is there?’

‘No,’ Ethan confirmed

‘Then by those saive up on you’

As the light played on Ethan’s hard, set face, he folded his arainst the door

Ethan continued to stare at her with his dark eyes slu Savannah wanted hierous power over her, she realised, and that poas addictive The pleasure Ethan could deliver was unih of hi her, the realities of life would always be shut out ‘I won’t leave until you telldeterminedly

He laughed ‘You’re refusing to leave my house?’

‘What’s the worst that can happen, Ethan—you tear up my contract?’ His eyes narroith surprise, as if that had never occurred to hi contract’ The moment this was out in the open, Savannah felt naked and vulnerable She would give up everything for Ethan, she realised, and now he knew that too If he laughed at her now, everything was over

Ethan re her

She pressed hi out her hands to him

‘Believeposition

It was a start; it was a chink of light at the end of the tunnel and she groped towards it ‘Perhaps you think I’h not to take to bed?’ she suggested

Ethan shrugged, and in the sas that had started when he was little, and had gone on until he was too big for thes to finish the job His stepfather’s ti had been impeccable, she learned He had chosen the week Ethan had heard he’d won a coveted place on the England rugby squad to finish the job

‘So I would never play again And, as a bonus, he had me scarred’

Ethan’s early life had been so very different from her own, Savannah could hardly take it in But itclear, she realised as he went on ‘Before his arrest my stepfather and mother came to visit me in hospital He must have wanted to be certain the job had been co over his ine’