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He awarded her a point for a good, persuasive argument

‘So?’ Her beautifully drawn lips parted as she waited for his answer

‘So I’ll coreed

‘Thank you,’ she exclaimed with relief

It was an error on his part He had given her chance to prepare for the next tirave Doña Anna couldn’t have planned this better, placing two people with the saul—in direct conflict with each other Inwardly, he huffed a smile of adht up her street

‘Before you go’ She nibbled on her lip

‘Yes?’

‘I want you to know that I really loved your aunt’

He shrugged Should he care? Was she waiting for his scrupulously and ca The numbness inside him had been there since childhood, he supposed He didn’t kno he felt about his aunt, though heshort of a dynasty would satisfy Doña Anna

‘Your aunt brought you up, didn’t she?’ Rosie pressed

‘Only because my parents preferred the fleshpots of Monte Carlo,’ he said with an iesture that told her to leave the subject alone

‘That ently, as if she cared

‘It was a long ti that would put her off

It seeclose to pity, which annoyed him even more

‘Your aunt said she threw you out when you were a teenager’ She laughed, see she ever did for you—but then she was always teaching people lessons, including me’