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‘Is that right?’ he said dryly, flicking a glance her way

At least they’d ht with relief ‘I’m sure of it,’ she said fiercely

‘So you’ve found a way out of the darkness?’

The glint was back in Ethan’s eyes—and that was ether at the palazzo He had coht theh this,’ she promised him

‘I already have’

‘Then you have no excuse’

‘Not to shine a light?’ As Savannah sh to iine life without her

‘I need you, Ethan,’ she told him passionately ‘We all need you’

‘Well, I don’t know about everyone,’ he adot me, Ms Ross—and for keeps’

‘What are you saying, Ethan?’

‘I’ that I love you, and that I want to be with you always’

Savannah sed deep as Ethan looked at her ‘I take it you’ll be staying on, then?’

‘Even a rugby match couldn’t keep land was playing, of course…’

EPILOGUE

THE SUN blazed down from a clear, blue Tuscan sky, and there were no shadows on the day that Savannah athered in the exquisite ancient city of Florence for what everyone was calling the celebrity e of the year