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“Are you ever going to give up?” she said

“Are you?”

He took a step towards her in the dark vestibule Kirsty stepped backwards, bu into the leaflet-covered, wood-panelled wall He put a hand on the wall beside her head and leaned into her

“Coive in,” he said softly “I’ surrender, but in this case, I would recoood option”

Kirsty licked her lips at the thought of it Surrender To Lake

The door to the church hall opened Lake stepped back smoothly and smiled at Caroline—who, as usual, was blissfully unaware of the undercurrent in the room

“Good,” she said in her crisp business tone “You’re here on time”

“As if ould dare to be anything else,” Kirsty teased

Caroline sht she was about ti

“Here are the rules,” Caroline said, handing them a pile of paperwork “I printed them out for you”

“Of course you did,” Kirsty said with a smile

Lake read theh they were a mission brief for an overseas operation She’d read Suzanne Brockman’s books; she kne the army worked

“You’ll sit at the red table,” Caroline told Kirsty “Thatalk down the centre of the hall, and you make a mark on your sheet if you want them”

Lake cleared his throat Caroline looked at him blankly while he suppressed a smile

“She means want them for models, not want them in bed,” Kirsty told him