Damiano's Return by Lynne Graham

Author:Lynne Graham [Graham, Lynne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2010-05-31T14:39:56+00:00

'For hours?' Damiano derided harshly. 'You almost missed your flight!'

'No, I didn't cut it that fine,' she countered tightly and curled her tense fingers into her damp palms, the happy sensation draining away, leaving only stress in its wake. 'And I wasn't with him all that time. I walked round the shops for a while—'

'You're not telling me the truth.'

The silence started feeling like a giant black hole spreading to within inches of her feet, ready to suck her in at any moment. The confidence with which Damiano made that charge was pure intimidation. It wasn't a question. It wasn't a sneaky carrot designed to draw her into speech and trip her up. No, what she was hearing was the challenge of a very shrewd male, who had not the slightest shred of doubt that she was concealing something from him.

'Why...why do you think that?' Eden prompted dry-mouthed.

His spectacular golden eyes struck sparks off hers. 'Tell me the truth,' he demanded with ice-cool clarity. 'You're squirming like a fish on a hook.' Eden worried at her lower lip with her teeth and stared back at him, horribly impressed by his power of perception. 'I...'

'Yes?' Damiano grated in the explosive silence.

'I only trailed round the shops because I was upset and that's why I was so late getting back to the house,' Eden volunteered in a driven rush. 'No big mystery.' She shrugged awkwardly. 'I just saw Mark as I hadn't managed to see him before...and I didn't like what I saw. So for that reason, I won't be seeing him again.'!

A faint frown-line had appeared between Damiano's winged ebony brows. She registered that she had dis-

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