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'In a ,' the hostesspassengers 'If you'll just follow et your jacket!'
Elizabeth turned and picked up the light, knitted-cotton jacket that she had shed on her seat, clutching her shoulder-bag and cahtly to her chest as she followed the hostess up the aisle, conscious that she had soain, to draw attention to herself Was she being taken to see the pilot? Perhaps she was going to be handed a parachute and tossed off the plane! Or perhaps she was going to be clapped in irons for the duration of the flight
'I didn’t want to say anything in front of the other passengers,' alley ahead of the compact business-class section, and Elizabeth's nerves shivered 'Soet very annoyed if there's any hint of inequity butyou've been upgraded to first class!'
With so of a dramatic flourish she drew back the curtain which divided the privileged from the plebeian and indicated the rear aisle seat 'If you'd like to sit down I'll bring you a glass of chane and the lunch menu'
'ButI'hast at this new development
'No ht No one in her right mind would turn down the offer of a first-class ride at econo Elizabeth realised that if she continued to protest she was going to make herself even lanced at the note in her hand 'I believe you must have a friend in our public relations division,' she offered srade you if we had any available spare seats'
Duncan Frazer! Elizabeth was hard put to it not to scream her frustration Uncle Miles must have told his friend about her travel plans his way ofup for the unfortunate position he had placed her in Little did he know the even more unfortunate position he had placed her in now
For, as Elizabeth reluctantlyin theseat studying his newly acquired travelling companion with speculative deliberation—was the very man whom she had been at such extreme pains to detect and avoid
The , spying on and secretly photographing
Theadulterer
Jean-Jules Haood
The man with pure silver eyes and a heart as black as sin
CHAPTER TWO
HANDSOME as sin, too That was a shock It hadn’t been Elizabeth's first i him at the airport, or even her second He wasn’t particularly tall for a man, probably around five feet ten, and in the coat he had been wearing he had looked rather bulky The pony-tail and the earring had been the crowning factors in her dismissal of him as vain and effete But noas stripped to jeans and a contoured pale blue shirt she could see that his bulk was all muscle and his hairstyle only served to ely harsh maleness of his body and face The sleek blue-black hair drawn ruthlessly back into the small pony-tail at the nape of his neck revealed a face of al bone and tautly stretched skin Histo the iold circle in his right ear If she hadn’t known that he was a wealthy businessed him as a man who lived outside the law—lean and erous to know Someone totally outside her lioodness' sake! Ad, which meant that his hair would barely cover his collar, but still, it was so…un-runner, the kind of ality of risk 'Miss Lamb?'
The dark-eyed air hostess was frowning in puzzlement as Elizabeth's hesitation stretched several seconds too long