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Leaping across the narrow space, he’d gently helped her to her feet So yes, he had quite literally picked her up! Looking into the concerned dark eyes, the proud, al features, at the tall bronzed perfection of a sensationally honed male clad just in patched cut-off denims that clipped the hard, narrow jut of his hips and a black vest top that had faded to grey, she had been utterly transfixed, her heart juain to play havoc in the region of her stomach

Their eyes had held as he assured hihtly accented English—glea unspoken headyhands that curved around her sli a sensation that was a slow, unbearably sweet aching deep inside her

That was how it had begun And she would never again pour scorn on the idea of falling in love at first sight

Ben had heaved a worried sigh, watching her as shefreshly picked peaches on a dish precisely in the centre of the breakfast table, had said lightly, ‘Every girl’s entitled to a holiday roet out of hand’

‘They haven’t, have they?’ Ben put in quickly, his frown deepening

As if she’d tell hio’s kisses and caresses had sent her up in fla a sild torment inside her, but he had

always pulled back at the critical moment, his voice soft and sultry as he had explained, ‘You are very young, querida One day you will be el, I value your purity above all else’

‘Is that a proposal?’ Her voice was shaky with passion, her throat thick He was all she had ever wanted; it was like a fairy tale

‘But of course, querida You are er traced the outline of her lush lips, h the rip-tide of ecstatic happiness, but ed a breathless, ‘When?’

‘When the tiraduate from university—’

‘That’s years away!’ she punched out, wriggling out of his ar away like water down a plughole

He took her hands ‘There is no ending to our love; time won’t alter that’ Wars to do Time will pass quickly, I promise You will have vacations and I shall tell you where I arin ‘You have a rich daddy ill pay for your air fares!’

She dragged her hands away and sulked for the rest of the day If he loved her asher this h!

But lying awake that night she’d forland at the end of their holiday as planned, square it with her father, as re as she didn’t bother hio And at the end of the year they would have beco her go

‘Nothing to say for yourself?’ Ben’s question pulled her back into the faro He accepted theof coffee she’d poured for him ‘I suppose you’ve told him who you are’

‘Of course he knoho I am!’