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“I’ve heard all about you over the years. They say you’re one of the brightest young hostesses in politics. I might have recognized you in one of those designer gowns you wear. Insiders say you’re the brains and drive behind your brother. But you don’t look so tough to me.”

“Pneumonia will make the toughest of us mellow, just briefly,” Nikki said, inclining her head. “So it’s war, is it?”

“That’s how I fight,” Kane returned, ramming his hands deep into his pockets.

“Fair enough. But there’s one condition. No mudslinging.”

He lifted an eyebrow. “You know better.”

She felt her face color with bad temper and her own hands clenched together. “No mudslinging about what we did together,” she said, forcing the words out.

He wanted to hit her where it hurt most. She’d made a fool of him.

“We had a one-night stand,” he said. “And I’m not running for public office. If I were, you might actually worry me.”

Nikki had once been warned, Men love in the darkness and are indifferent in the dawn. Now that phrase came back to her with vivid force….

“Diana Palmer is a mesmerizing storyteller who captures the essence of what a romance should be.”

—Affaire de Coeur