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“It’s too late to go back now,” he said flatly “I did warn you yesterday that once we shared a bed we couldn’t go back to the way things were I thought you understood that”

“I do,” she replied “I a But neither should you expecthatever you decide to do This isthe price for e did”

“Well, it is too late because you must,” Barnaby replied

He didn’t knohen he had fallen in love with her but he had Totally Co he had It was every fibre of his being now; this woht across country to find her was one of the ht that Chadwick had her had left him coldly furious and desperately worried

To think she had run to try to get away from him left him more than a little shaken In fact, he was horrified

“I don’t have to do anything,” she reminded him

“You are under my protection,” Barnaby countered “So you must”

“So last night was your protection was it?”

“No, it wasn’t,” Barnaby replied “It waswas lousy but I do fir to do”

“Why?” she whispered

“Because I love you,” he said bluntly and ignored her startled gasp Now that he had opened up and started to talk about his feelings nothing was going to stop hi, but there is so – an invisible connection of soht froht we uests If I am honest, it wasn’t entirely because of Chadwick either”

Rose stared at hirow She tried to be angry but didn’t knohat to think Unsure if she should trust hi but honesty in the so her

“Do you mean to tell ht never have found me?” She asked weakly

Barnaby coughed uncomfortably “It is safe to say that I was more of a threat to Chadwick than you, and he and I knew it He would have passed you off as a passionate entanglement and come after me if I had made my presence known to him”

“But you carried ot me shot at,” she cried