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Come with me. The words were in slashing black ink on a page from a notebook. I can get you away from this. You’ll be safe.

Lucy’s head jerked up.

‘Safe?’ With him?

Domenico nodded. ‘Yes.’

Around them journalists craned to hear. One tried to snatch the note from Lucy’s hand. She crumpled it in her fist. He couldn’t want to help her. Yet she wasn’t fool enough to think she could stay here. Trouble was brewing and she’d be at the centre of it.

Still she hesitated. This close, Lucy was aware of the strength in those broad shoulders, in that tall frame and his square olive-skinned hands. Once that blatant male power had left her breathless. Now it threatened.

He leaned forward. She stiffened as his whispered words caressed her cheek.

‘Word of a Volpe.’

She knew he was proud. Haughty. Loyal. A powerful man. A dangerously clever one. But everything she’d read—and she’d read plenty—indicated he was a man of his word. He wouldn’t sully his ancient family name or his pride by lying.

She hoped.