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CHAPTER SIX

THE big off-roader, unlike the car Nell had arrived in, was equipped with air-conditioning. She got in and Luiz immediately irritated her by telling her to fasten her seat belt as though, she reflected crankily, she were an imbecile or a small child.

To ignore him would unfortunately have proved she was at least one, so Nell fastened herself in.

‘Where are we going?’ A little late in the day to display this basic curiosity but better late than never.

He flashed her a quick sideways look. ‘A cottage the other side of the mountain.’ He nodded towards a blue-tinged peak that framed the castle. ‘By the sea.’

‘What makes you so sure that they are there?’

‘Felipe has always liked the place. He has mentioned on more than one occasion it’s his idea of the perfect love nest.’

Or lair, she thought darkly.

Luiz showed no further inclination to talk and a silence not of the comfortable variety stretched between them.

The road turned out to be as bad as he had suggested and the gradient steadily increased, until it became so steep the back wheels struggled to gain purchase on the potholed ground.

On one occasion Nell winced.