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“Oh, that’s fine I’ve been trying to reach hiether? I realize this is an is, but I will, if necessary The commander will clear it”

“I’m sure he will,” Eve muttered “I’ll leave as soon as he does I’ll be in touch” She broke transmission “The spoiled rich irritate the hell out of me”

“Grief and worry don’t have economic boundaries,” Roarke said

“Oh shut up” She huffed, kicked bad-temperedly at the desk

“You’ll like Ro,” Roarke said and smiled

Eve did like Roht of it on the zoo the Spanish Steps: fountains and traffic and ruins too ancient to be believed

From the rear of the private limo, Eve watched the fashionable pedestrians with a kind of baffled aeeping robes were in this season, apparently Clingy, sheer, voluminous, in colors fro froes carried by men and women alike Everyone looked like royalty

Roarke hadn’t known she could gawk It pleased hi enough to stare and wonder It was a shaht, that they couldn’t take a day or two so that he could show her the city, the grandeur of it, and its impossible continuity

He was sorry when the car pulled jerkily to the curb and yanked her back to reality

“This better be good” Without waiting for the driver, she slammed out of the car When Roarke took her elbow to lead her inside the apart, she turned her head and frowned at hi summoned across a damn ocean for a conversation?”

“Darling, I often go a great deal farther for less And without such char company”

She snorted and had nearly taken out her badge to flash at the security droid before she reelini”

“You’re expected, Eve Dallas and Roarke” The droid glided to a gilt-barred elevator and keyed in a code

“You could get one of those,” Eve nodded toward the droid before the elevator’s doors closed, “and ditch Summerset”

“Summerset has his own charm”