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‘What’s wrong with you?’ she dery voice ‘You left et it I understand that your work ht, but couldn’t you have let me know you were safe? I orried about you’ She searched his face with frustration ‘You could have contacted the ship,’ she insisted ‘I’ around all night, waiting for you’ When he didn’t answer she got angry ‘Don’t you care for anyone but yourself? This is the first full day of our honeymoon—’
On top of his frustration, tension, and his monumental decision to turn both his plans and his life upside down, Rosie’s accusations were the straw that broke the caement!’ he roared ‘I don’t have to explain my every move to you’
And now she had tears in her eyes, and he wasn’t proud of that ‘I’ive him in his life There had never been any call for him to do so, and now he’d upset the one person he should protect to his last breath
Rosie was in noon all cylinders, chin raised, eyes blazing, ‘An arrangement to suit you,’ she accused hiet an heir any other way’
She hated saying words like that The expression in Xavier’s eyes wounded her as h to hi night, with no proper explanation, had cut her to the bone ‘Was that just part of our bargain when you ht?’ she asked him ‘You did make love to me Please tell me I’m not mistaken about that’ She hated the note of desperation in her voice ‘So, what a ‘You love having sex with e and the banter, but you’ll never be able to love me in the way I need to be loved’
‘What way is that, Rosie?’ he asked quietly
She sucked in a breath as she searched her s ‘I want to be loved fiercely, wildly, passionately—I don’t even know,’ she ad her hair with frustration
‘Do you think I’m so different from you?’ Xavier deless than one hundred per cent of the island? Or was it my finer qualities that tipped the balance for you? Perhaps the truth is, you would stop at nothing to get your share increased—and enjoy my lifestyle while you’re at it?’
‘That’s not fair,’ she exclaimed
‘So I’m not entitled to have the same doubts as you? You dream because it’s safe—
‘That’s right, leave!’ he stormed as she turned for the door
Like his oing anywhere,’ she said ‘I don’t run away fro I never have You have to blooe, and that’s what I’ to do here’
Her heart ached for both of the that neither of thes, but there was one thing she had to get straight ‘I’ve never been interested in your ot everything and nothing It doesn’t lasses on your super-yacht, or a plastic beaker at the orphanage Life is eh it alone’
‘You’re an expert on feelings now?’ he said, with a lift of his brow
‘I only knohat I feel in here’ She touched her chest ‘And you can say what you like about Doña Anna, but I think she threw us together in one last attempt to jolt both of us onto a better track’