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‘So long as it’s not that wretched ring,’ she warned, shooting a wary glance at the box

‘Why don’t you open it and find out?’ Xavier suggested

She did just that, and pulled out a key

‘Welcome home, Señora Del Rio’

‘I don’t understand’

‘This is your house Any tiet away from me you can come here—’

‘You’re giving me a house?’ Rosie exclaimed She couldn’t take it in

‘A Swiss chalet,’ he said ‘Just the first of ifts for my beautiful wife’

He silenced her protests with a kiss, and h with pleasure as he caressed her cheek ‘You don’t play fair,’ she complained softly as he nuzzled the very sensitive skin just below her ear,her shiver with arousal

‘And I don’t take no for an answer, either,’ he reminded her

‘But you can’t give me a house It’s too much’

‘I can and I have,’ he argued fir to be the best Christmas either of us has ever had’

‘It will be I pro she could to make it so

‘Why don’t you open your front door, señora?’

‘I suppose if this is my house I’d better show you around—’