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thundered into life again, pounding in her ears. Her eyes
seemed darkened and aching. Her fingers curled
imploringly, held rigid at her sides, as she fought the
impulse to reach up and touch him.
Whatever happened, she must not let him guess what
that cruel, punishing kiss had done to her. As he drew
away, breathing hard, she kept her eyes and lips tightly
closed. After a moment she heard him walking away, his
feet crunching on the sand.
Tears began to trickle down her face. So now she
knew—what she had always known since their first
meeting. She loved him. But now she had been forced, by
her body’s treachery, to admit it to herself.
CHAPTER SEVEN
When the others came back she pretended to be asleep, and
let them wake her, so that her silence could be put down to
the drowsiness of someone suddenly dragged back to a
wakeful condition. She trailed after them, back to the villa,
dreading the first meeting with Marc, but when they
arrived they found Sophia busily supervising the laying of
the table, and she told them that Marc had taken Marie-
Louise to Epilison to visit Pyrakis.
Kate felt a pang of unbearable jealousy at the news. She
knew that Marc had only been reacting angrily, when he
kissed her, to what he believed to be her interference
between Pallas and Jean-Paul. The furious glitter of his
eyes had confirmed that. But she stupidly felt hurt that he
should take Marie-Louise to see Pyrakis so soon after
taking her there.
She went up to change for lunch and chose a plain green
