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Elena laughed as she heard them, relieved, and shook her head at them as shetold them cheerfully, ‘Yes, I may be an intruder now, but you’re going to have toget used to me. You and I shall be seeing an awful lot of one another, youknow.’She stayed with them for several minutes, watching them and talking to them.Soon, no doubt, when it became fully dark, they would be roosting somewhereout of the way of any predatory hunting foxes.Turning her back on them, Elena stared thoughtfully at the house, trying tovisualise how it would look once the stone had been cleaned. That alone wouldcost a small fortune and would, no doubt, take almost as long as it would take forthe interior to be renovated. She must ask Roth to give her any formal recordsfrom when the hall had originally been built and the work done on it since then.She wasn’t sure, but she suspected that the stairway she had seen had been, if notthe work of Grinling Gibbons, then certainly the work of one of his morei
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What is it?’ Roth asked her, his attention caught by the movement of her hand.‘You’re heavy, Roth, you’re hurting me,’ Elena told him, not entirelytruthfully, as she tried to bury herself in the night’s cloaking shadows, but it wastoo late and she could see from the sudden narrowing of his gaze as it followedthe action of her hand that he realised, as she had just done herself, that herwretched T-shirt had ridden up far enough to expose the lower curve of herbreasts.The last thing, the very last thing she wanted was for Roth to study her body inany way at all, so why...why, the moment his gaze fell to her breasts, did theysuddenly decide to react to his presence by swelling and firming, her nipplessensually flaunting peaks of explicit womanhood?‘You’re not wearing a bra...’‘Thank you, Roth, but I am already aware of that fact,’ Elena snapped at himthrough gritted teeth, her face hot with colour as she tried to reach the edge ofher T-shirt to tug it down. But before
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As he started to walk towards where he had left his car the fierce male ache inhis body made him clench his teeth. Right now there was nothing, nothing, hewanted more than to finish what they had started. Nothing he wanted more andno one he could have less.Elena's body might still be responsive to him, but She herself hated him.He knew that. She had told him so often enough.‘Dave the man I love,’ she had said, throwing the words at him likeweapons, and he, too furious, too jealous to respond, had simply walked awaywithout explaining to her that she was a wealthy man’s daughter and he mighthave nothing, but at least, unlike her precious dave, he genuinely cared abouther, hadn’t just been using her!He had spent the next two days searching Oxford from top to bottom for her,but by then it was too late—she had disappeared. The next time he had seen hershe had been with the band of New Age travellers who had invaded Lucas land,quite plainly enjoying flaunting her relations
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Ten minutes later Elena was on her way downstairs when she heard voices in the hallway, and as she rounded the curve of the staircase she could see the housekeeper talking with a tall, elegant woman in her late thirties. ‘So you’ll tell Roth that I called,’ she was saying to Mrs Elliott. ‘Yes, I will, Mrs Edwards,’ the other woman was responding respectfully. Thoughtfully and discreetly Elena studied her. Tall, slender, expensively dressed, immaculately made up, she was the type of woman whom She could remember Roth favouring and she immediately guessed that she must be Roth’s current woman-friend. There was certainly that very confident, almost proprietorial air about her that suggested she was far more than simply a mere visitor to the house. She turned away from the house keeper and then saw Elena, her expression changing slightly and becoming, if not challenging then certainly assessing, Elena recognised as she continued on her way downstairs. ‘I’m just on my way to Haverton H
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You can’t deny the evidence of this report,’ Elena reminded him sternly.‘What evidence?’ Roth demanded. ‘This is a report and an estimate for workon the Rectory—work which I have had carried out at my own expense; the onlyreason the report and costing is there at all is because I omitted to remove itwhen I had the documents copied for you...’‘You’ve paid for the work on the Rectory yourself?’ Elena queried indisbelief.Roth's mouth thinned.‘Perhaps you’d like to see the receipts,’ he challenged her.‘Yes, I would,’ Elena responded doggedly, refusing to let him cow her eventhough she could feel her face starting to burn self-consciously and her stomachbeginning to churn as she contemplated just how foolish she was going to look ifRoth did produce such receipts.‘Mrs Elizabeth tells me that you’re going out for dinner this evening.’elena stared at him, thrown by his abrupt change of subject.‘Yes. Yes, I am,’ she agreed.‘There isn’t a decent restaurant for miles,’
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It was almost eight when Elena pulled up outside the Rectory’s front door.Her earlier hunger had turned into a gnawing irritation that was making herhead ache and her temper on edge. Low blood sugar, she told herself sternly. Allyou need is a sweet drink.All she needed maybe, but not all she wanted. What she wanted...What on earth was the matter with her? she derided herself as she opened thefront door. Other women her age daydreamed and fantasised about having men,not meals.Eight o’clock. She just had time to get showered and changed before hermeeting with Roth. She wanted to run through her figures again, but if, as he said,he had paid for the work himself and he had the receipts to prove it... Perhapsshe had been too quick to accuse him...‘Elena..’She froze at the bottom of the stairs as she heard Roth's voice. When sheturned her head he was standing in an open doorway several feet away from her.‘Mrs Elizabeth is going to serve dinner at eight-thirty so you’ve
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Let go of you...? Do you realise what you’re saying, what you’re accusingme of doing? You’re not a teenager any more, Elena, and if this is some kind ofpetty attempt to—’‘No, I’m not.’ Elena interrupted him furiously. ‘I’m the Trust’s representativehere at Haverton and as such it’s my job to protect the Trust’s interests and itsinvestments... If I think that someone, anyone, is trying to cheat the Trust ormisuse its funds, then it’s my job to—’‘Your job...?’ Roth laughed savagely. ‘You sound very high-minded forsomeone who’s slept her way into her “job” via her boss’s bed.’There was a second’s pause and then a white heat, a zigzag of pure fury andfrustrated womanly pride, hit Elena like a bolt of lightning. Immediately shereacted in the only way her outraged female instincts knew, lifting her hand andslapping Roth's face in furious rejection of his insult.Elena didn’t know which of them was the more shocked—she who haddelivered the blow or Roth who had received it.
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When her mother had first married Lucas father and they had gone to live inhis ancestral home, she had been overwhelmed at first by the darkness of thehuge house. It had been Roth who had guessed her fears and apprehensions afterhe had found her sleepwalking that night. Roth who had been staying at the houseinstead of his cottage one weekend, ‘babysitting’ her in the absence of hermother, and who had taken her, not back to bed, but to his own room where hehad made her a hot drink and talked to her, showing her the telescope he used towatch the night sky.The binoculars beside it he had used for another, more mundane purpose. Asthe estate manager one of his jobs had been to keep a sharp look-out forpoachers. The night had no fears for Roth, and through him she too had learned toappreciate its special beauties. It had been Roth who had taken her to watch thebadger cubs at play, earning her mother’s anger. Elena quickly stopped that lineof thought. Since she couldn’t sleep
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