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‘You win, Alessandro.’

Chase looked at him with green eyes that had once mesmerised him right out of the rigidly controlled box into which he had always been accustomed to piling his emotional entanglements with the opposite sex.

‘But maybe you could tell me whether you would have been as hard-line if I hadn’t been the person sitting here trying to talk you out of buying the shelter.’

‘Oh, the sale most certainly would have gone ahead …’ Alessandro drawled, without an ounce of sympathy. ‘But I probably wouldn’t have tacked on a ticking clock.’

Chase glared at him. ‘I never took you for a bully.’

‘I’ll admit that I have no intention of pulling out of this purchase, but you could recoup the lost thousands …’

‘Could I? How?’ She stared at him. She knew that the finances for the shelter were in serious disarray. They would need all the money they could get just to pay off the debts and wipe the slate clean.

‘We have an unfinished past …’ Alessandro murmured. ‘It’s time to finish it. I want to know who the hell you really are. Satisfy my curiosity and the full price is back on the table …’