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So anymore “I am afraid I will become like her”

“What do you mean? She is a beautiful, desirable woman who has worked to make her business a success”

“She has had her heart broken many times, and men have used her for their own ends”

“I would have thought she used them”

“She abandoned us”

“You were kidnapped”

“If she wasn’t off pursuing some man, it wouldn’t have happened”

“Francesca…”

“No” She pulled away fro in her eyes “You’ve spoiled it now,” she whispered, and turned and fled up the stairs to her uncle’s house

Sebastian stood and watched the door close behind her

So that as wrong She believed she was Aphrodite’s daughter in ive free rein to her emotions, to her desires, would be to invite disaster So she bound those e them as a prisoner was restrained in a cell

It was time someone unlocked the door and showed Francesca Greentree that she was no ordinary woht be tears, there ht be hurt, but there would be happiness, too And yes, there would be desire

And who better to teach her that than Sebastian?

Aphrodite’s death was taking far longer than he’d hoped But he had to be careful He didn’t want any suspicion attached to it, and he certainly didn’t want doctors and er of suspicion The whore couldn’t last er

But there was another proble The little spy he had planted in Aphrodite’s Club wasn’t happy She hadn’t said so, but Angela knew, and had reht have to do so about the spy But he’d allow the dust to settle on Aphrodite’s coffin first