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She felt the warmth of his body at her back…
Оглавление“I’ve been trying to forget Paris,” Pierce said after a minute.
“You and Humphrey Bogart?” Brianne replied dryly.
“What? Oh. Oh!” He chuckled, then his eyes narrowed. “Local gossip says that there’s a move to involve you with your stepfather’s brand-new business partner, a sort of family merger.”
She lost all color, but she didn’t blink an eyelash. “Really?”
“Don’t prevaricate,” he said impatiently. “I know everything that goes on in this town.”
“I can take care of myself.” She straightened her shoulders.
“At nineteen?”
“Twenty,” she corrected. “I had a birthday last week.”
He made a rough sound. “Honey, you’re fighting city hall when you tangle with your stepfather, much less with his shady partners.”
“Something you know from experience?”
He smiled at Brianne. “I didn’t say I couldn’t win. I said you couldn’t.”
“Nobody tops Diana Palmer…I love her stories.”
—Jayne Ann Krentz
