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CHAPTER ONE
‘WERE you seen co up to my suite?’ Navarre Cazier prompted in the Italian that came as naturally to him as the French of his homeland
Tia pouted her famously sultry lips and in spite of her sophistication contrived to look re and naive as befitted one of the world’s h the side entrance—’
Navarre ditched his frown and s blue eyes telegraphing embarrassed vulnerability he couldn’t help it ‘It’s you I’m concerned about The paparazzi follow you everywhere—’
‘Not here …’ Tia Castelli declared, tossing her head so that a silken skein of honey-blonde hair rippled across her sliot long though Luke will be back at our hotel by three and I have to be there’
At that reference to her notoriously volatile rock star husband, Navarre’s lean, darkly handsoreen eyes darkened
Tia ran a ly below the implacable line of his shapely masculine mouth ‘Don’t be like that, caro mio This is my life, take me or leave me … and I couldn’t bear it if you chose the second option!’ she warned hi to betray the insecurity she hid from the world ‘I’m sorry, so sorry that it has to be like this between us!’
‘It’s OK,’ Navarre told her soothingly although he was lying through his even white teeth as he said it He loathed being a dirty little secret in her life but the alternative was to end their relationship and although he was re-willed and stubborn, he had found himself quite unable to do that
‘And you’re still bringing a partner with you for the awards ceremony, aren’t you?’ Tia checked anxiously ‘Luke is so incredibly suspicious of you’
‘Angelique Simonet, currently the toast of the Paris catwalk,’ Navarre answered wryly
‘And she doesn’t know about us?’ the movie actress pressed worriedly
‘Of course not’
‘I know, I know … I’asped strickenly ‘I couldn’t stand to lose Luke!’
‘You can trust me’ Navarre closed his arlistened with the tears that ca with nerves Navarre tried not to wonder what Luke Convery had been doing or saying to get her into such a state Tio there, better neither to know nor to enquire He did not interfere in her e any more than she questioned his choice of lovers
‘I hate going so long without seeing you It feels wrong,’ she muttered heavily ‘But I’ve told so many lies I don’t think that I could ever tell the truth’
‘It’s not ientleness that would have astounded some of the women he had had in his life
Navarre Cazier, the legendary French industrialist and billionaire, had the reputation of being a generous but distant lover to the beautiful woh he le life, woly keen to tell hi Tia, however, occupied a category all of her own and he played by different rules with her Accustoh, self-reliant and unapologetically selfish but he always restrained that side of his nature with Tia and at least tried to accommodate her needs
Later that afternoon when she had gone, Navarre was heading for the shohen his mobile buzzed beside the bed Tia’s distinctive perfu in the air like a shaain soon but their next encounter would be in public and they would have to be circumspect for Luke Convery was a hothead, all too well aware of his gorgeous wife’s chequered history of previous es and clandestine affairs Tia’s husband was always on the watch for signs that his wife’s attention
The call was froelique and Navarre’s mood dive-bombed when he learned that his current lover was not, after all, coelique had just been offered a television can by a famous cosmetics company and even Navarre could not fault her desire to make the most of such an opportunity
Even so, it see to frustrate hielique this week and not only as a screen to protect Tia from the malicious rumours that had linked his name with hers on past occasions He also had a difficult deal to close with the husband of a former lover, who had recently attempted to reanimate their affair A woman on his arotiable necessity for Tia’s peace of ood business practice in a difficult situation Merde alors, what the hell was he going to do without a partner at this late stage in the gaagement and not attempt to take it further?