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Who was Graha she really kneas that he was a stranger who had entered her life with the force of a storas? He said he was on vacation, but he didn’t like ga any more than she did And then there was the most important question of all Why her? In a town filled with beautiful women, why had he chosen her? She never deceived herself about her looks She was attractive, yes, irls, the models, the would-be actresses ere a dias? No way

Why would a ent, so obviously rich and eligible, pick her?

All those questions, and then her conversation with Cassie It had left her shaken though she’d tried not to show it She’d spent the afternoon doing the scut work of the wealthy and i her duties by rote while she tried to s, but how could you ?

For four years she’d led a quiet, careful existence She’d been content with her job, happy with the little hoe that her son was safe She’d lived by a set of self-imposed rules meant to protect her and Tommy—and then, in what she could only think of as one explosive moment of madness, she’d broken them all

She’d gotten involved with a man Gotten involved? What a stupid, eerous

She’d fallen in love

She’d been sitting in her office after lunch, talking on the phone with an up-and-co about how he could only drink water bottled in a spring that bubbled up in a particular valley ri yes, uh-huh, I understand, when all at once she’d thought, Cassie’s right I’m in love with Gray

And hot on the heels of that dizzying realization had come another

Aaround the casino

How could those two things happen at the saht about that, too? Was it coincidence, that Gray had come into her life and now Har else?

“You must understand,” she’d heard the director say, “only that specific water…” and she broke into his stupid little speech and said all right, she’d take care of it Then she’d dropped the phone and run fro about where she was going or what she was about to do, she’d have lost her courage

Riding the elevator to Gray’s floor, listening to the pounding of her heart, she’d tried to i hiht she ran away from the mountain

If Cassie rong and there wasn’t a connection between Gray and Har to do Once Gray knew everything, hoould he look at her? Her past Her secrets She’d kept the most important parts of herself hidden from him…and yet, that wasn’t the worst of it

What if Cassie was right? Could there be some awful link between Gray and Harman?

No, she’d thought as she hurried down the hall, no, there couldn’t be Just i the two men in the same room was impossible