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name of your hotel?’ Luke repeated.
    Her lips numb, Suzy told him. Luke watched her in silence.
    â€˜Right, we’ll go there now and get your stuff.’ He glanced at his watch. ‘It will soon be dinner time, and that will be a perfect opportunity for me to introduce you. Which reminds me—you had better get used to calling me Luke.’
    â€˜Luke?’ Suzy checked him, confused. ‘But I thought your name was Lucas?’
    â€˜Officially, it is,’ he agreed coolly. ‘Lucas is an old family name, from my father’s family, but my mother always called me Luke.’ His expression shadowed a little, and against her will Suzy felt an emotional tug on her heartstrings. ‘My friends call me Luke, and as my partner so must you.’
    â€˜As your partner…’ Suzy began shakily. Her heart was thumping, and not solely because of the speed with which Luke was forcing her to walk down the hill alongside him.
    â€˜Partner as in living together. Partner as in lovers!’ Luke answered calmly.
    Lovers? Suzy heart jerked frantically. She couldn’t. She wouldn’t!
    â€˜I…Will I have my own room?’ Suzy could hear the wobble in her voice.
    Luke stood still and looked at her. What kind of game was she trying to play now? The Little Miss Innocent nervous act certainly didn’t fool him, and he was surprised that she should try it.
    â€˜Of course you will have your own room,’ he said silkily.
    Suzy began to exhale in a rush.
    â€˜However, it will also be my room,’ Luke informed her grimly. ‘And let me warn you right now that I am a very light sleeper, and trained to wake at the slightest sound. If there’s one thing I hate it’s having my sleep disturbed, so if you were rash enough to try to leave the room during the night I warn you that I am not likely to react with either charity or gentleness. Do I make myself understood?’
    Suzy lingered mentally over a handful of biting retorts before reluctantly abandoning in favour of safety and silence.
    â€˜And whilst we are on the subject I might as well point out to you that there are guards posted at every exit from the villa and my men patrol the grounds.
    Trying not to look afraid, Suzy demanded, ‘Won’t it look odd for me to suddenly turn up at the villa? I mean, you’re here on business, and you don’t strike me as the kind of man who would allow his partner to just appear and expect…’
    He was watching her with a narrow-eyed intensity that unnerved her.
    â€˜We had a quarrel about how much time we have to spend apart before I left London,’ Luke told her smoothly. ‘You’ve realised how idiotic you were being and you’ve come here to apologise to me.’
    â€˜I was being idiotic?’ Suzy stopped him wrathfully, her fear forgotten as she leapt to the defence of her sex. ‘And now I’m apologising…?’
    â€˜Since I’m here on holiday with an old friend and his children—’ Luke ignored her outburst ‘—what could be more natural than that you should join us?’
    â€˜You’re here on holiday?’ Suzy shook her head challengingly. ‘I saw with my own eyes those men and that car and—’
    â€˜ You may have seen them,’ Luke said with cold menace, ‘but I intend to make sure you do not get the opportunity to say so—to anyone. And most especially not to Roy Jarvis!’
    â€˜Why won’t you accept that I do not work for the magazine any more?’ Suzy demanded in frustration.
    â€˜And as for the men I saw—’ She gave a dismissive shrug. ‘I just saw them, that’s all.’
    â€˜You just saw them? I saw you photographing them,’ Luke reminded her damningly.
    â€˜Because I thought it would make a good photograph to show my friends. They run a holiday company,’ Suzie told him in frustration. ‘Look, I can give you their