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"Married?"

"No, never"

"Come close?"

"Maybe once"

"What happened?"

"She was killed"

Maeve could see that Pitt had never quite bridged the chasretted asking the question and felt embarrassed She was instinctively drawn to hiuessed that he was the kind ofdeeper than a casual physical relationship, and she knew that insincere flirting held no attraction for him

"Her nao"

"I'm sorry," said Maeve softly

"Her eyes were gray and her hair red, but she looked much like you"

"I'm flattered"

He was about to ask her about her boys but stopped hi it would spoil the intimacy of the moment Two people alone, well, almost alone, in a world of moon, stars and a black restless sea

Devoid of huround, thousands of kiloness surrounded theine the across the bay of some tropical island

"You also bear an incredible reserandmother," he said

She raised her head and gazed at him "How could you possibly know I look like her?"