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Are you telling me that you missed me after all?”

To her consternation and fury, Laura felt her cheeks grow hot. Angrily she slapped his hands away. “I am not telling you anything of the sort. At least have the decency to explain to me where you have been for the past two years—and why you are cavorting about the county as a highwayman. Tell me!”

“Trust me. I know exactly what I am doing, and why I am doing it.”

“Then let us dispense with this conversation and go and tell Edward who you are, before that accomplice of yours shoots him.”

Lucas’s fingers closed cruelly on her upper arm as she began to walk away. “Do not even consider doing that. Defy me on this and nothing would give me greater satisfaction than to make you regret it.”