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out, and she almost wanted to take him up on the offer.

    “You will go alone over my dead body.” Tyler raked his turbulent eyes across her face.

    “Well, that’s just it, isn’t it? As far as the citizens of New Monaco are concerned you
    already are a dead duck.” Tyler’s face fell. “Don’t tell me that little fact just slipped your
    mind?”

    “Do you have to go under the ruse of being his lover? First, it was the Red Falcon, and
    now it’s Devlin. Good God, woman!” She smiled. It was rather nice to know that Tyler thought
    so much of her.

    “Don’t worry, he doesn’t compare to you in any way.” She bet Devlin would be better,
    better than the way Tyler and she had been together for the last little while. “Perhaps, this
    disguise is for the best. I can’t very well take Johanna down with me, she is needed here to
    attend to Veronica.”

    “I don’t like this. You are my wife! I’m sick to death of you playing the part of another
    man’s lover,” Tyler muttered.

    “Your possessiveness touches me, it really does,” she sighed. “But can we get on with it?
    Tyler, I don’t think the message was over. Please, play the rest of it.”

    “Fine.” Tyler pressed a button on the controls, and Devlin’s frozen image became
    animated once again.

    “I shall keep this short and sweet, my dearest love.” Samantha coughed, and Dylan made
    a gagging noise. Tyler was unnaturally quiet. Samantha didn’t like it when this sort of silence
    met her. With that, Devlin’s image faded away, only to be replaced by a smattering of big pink
    hearts across the screen.

    “Well, that definitely wasn’t something you see everyday. I just have to go and tell
    Johanna about it, and while I’m down there, I have to ask her why she contacted Devlin in the
    first place.” Dylan shot out down the hall, leaving Tyler and Samantha sitting in an
    uncomfortable silence.

    “Penny for your thoughts?” She gave him an eager look, and he didn’t meet her eyes.
    “Oh, for the love of God! Tyler, you do know that there isn’t another man in my life but you,
    right? As far as everyone on New Monaco is concerned, I’m supposed to be a widow!!!”

    “Of course, forgive me. I just didn’t think you had to be such a frigging merry widow!”
    But his jaw was tightly set, and she pursed her lips.

    “You are getting on my last nerve, Tyler.”

    “Devlin has things that I don’t have. He was in love with Johanna once, and in case you
    haven’t noticed, you’re not that much different from your sister.”

    “Johanna and I aren’t clones you know. And besides, I rather think that Devlin still holds
    that torch for Johanna.” There was a testy edge to her voice. She knew Devlin didn’t hold the
    torch for Johanna. She knew Devlin had only turned his attention to Johanna to piss her off. It
    hadn’t worked. She’d stayed away from Devlin and she’d married Tyler. Now, she almost
    wished she hadn’t. She stood up and walked away from him. “I told you already that you and
    Devlin are not competing for my love. And as for those things that he has, they don’t matter to
    me one bit. Please believe me.” She couldn’t smile. Her heart hurt.

    He stared at her for a long time. “I think I am going to go to bed. I am damn tired. Are
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    you coming?” she asked, hoping he would say no. She wanted to be in bed and safely asleep
    before he came to their quarters. Being around him was becoming increasingly hard, and even
    though she didn’t want her marriage to fail, she couldn’t see a way around it. Running into
    Devlin again was probably going to put the last nail into her marriage.

    “You go. I’ll be there in a sec.” Hesitantly, she started to walk away from him. Maybe
    she couldn’t keep trying to fix something that had always had a crack in the foundation. She had
    married Tyler as a way to escape from what could have been with Devlin. She turned to walk
    toward the