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"Live with it" And she sighed long and deep when the hot water began to pulse out froood"

Fifteentube with her muscles warmed and limber, her mind clear and alert

Roarke toweled off -- another of his habits she couldn't understand Why waste ti yourself with cotton when a quick spin in the drying tube took care of it? She was reaching for her robe when she noticed it wasn't the one she'd left hanging there that

"What's this?" She took down the long flow of scarlet

"Cashmere You'll like it"

"You've bought me a million robes I don't see" But her voice trailed off as she slipped it on "Oh" She hated it when she lost herself in so as shallow as textures But this was soft as a cloud, war "It's pretty nice"

He grinned, belting a black robe in the same material "Suits you Cohts"

"Peabody and McNab are in They'll have their match lists by tomorrow" She wandered back into the bedroone; a silver tray with canapes aiting What the hell, she decided, and stuffed solorious into her mouth as she poured two flutes "Your covers for the"

"Of course" Frohts

"Don't get cocky, we've got a long way to go Nadine was in ot to Central," Eve added, and set Roarke's chaot a load of Peabody so I had to fill her in more than I wanted Off the record"

"Nadine is one of those rare reporters you can trust" Roarke studied the tree, the lights, and decided to dive straight in "She won't leak sensitive data"

"Yeah, I know We got into that a bit" Frowning, Eve circled the tree while Roarke worked She had no idea if he knehat he was doing "If Piper and Rudy hadn't seen me, I'd have done the inside work myself"

Roarke lifted an eyebrow as he secured the first s

tring and took out another "I e men"

She went back to the tray, took another pretty canape at random "I wouldn't have slept with any of therinned at hiht of you the whole time"