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CHAPTER ONE
It arm and airless in the roo miles of the campos, the heat of this July afternoon would be almost intolerable
Cassie waited Her body felt darey and cream linen suit she had worn for the journey from London to the vast Las Colinas Verdes estates in Andalusia
The suit, understatedly elegant and deliberately so, had survived the flight and the taxi-ride out here well, she thought thankfully No way had she wanted to present herself looking less than businesslike and in control
She lifted a hand to check that her rich chestnut hair was tamed, severely anchored into the nape of her neck And her heartbeats were steady—that was another consolation There was no reason for theer a nervous, besotted bride of just twenty-one She was three years older and a whole lot wiser
Satisfied that her appearance was as good as it could get—given her average kind of looks—she glanced at her watch and wondered how ht her from Jerez airport had deposited her here at the faro The at to stifle her, the louvres closed to keep out the merciless white heat of the sun
'I will send someone to tell your husband that you are here,' her mother-in-law had stated Dona Elvira had spoken politely; she always had, Cassie re up her barbed insults, insults unfailingly echoed by her two older sisters, Roueda and Tia Carmela
'Isof patrician nostrils had denoted that that lady had known Ro since lost whatever interest he ed wife
No longer as frighteningly squashable as she once had been, Cassie had ignored the question and coolly stated, 'I'll wait In the meantime, I'd like to see Roy Perhaps you could send him to me'
And so she waited Her disgraced twin brother, Roy, it transpired, was not available He had been put to work erecting fences out on the estate, under the blistering sun, a part of the punish
'I'm under house arrest at Las Colinas Verdes, while Ro his distraught phone call of a couple of days ago 'I can't face ten years in a Spanish jail, sis—I'd rather topto rise with panic 'You could persuade Roes He won't listen to ue like a whip and a ! It h to him!'