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‘No, you don’t,’ Deb answered him coolly. ‘It’s your pride making you do this. It’s my belief that you just cannot bear anyone getting the better of you.’

Beau’s eyes were narrow slits. ‘My motives, Miss O’Hara, aren’t yours to question.’

‘But your strategy is, since I’m to play a major part in it! How can I seriously pretend to be Paulette?’

Her composure appeared to be cracking at last. She got to her feet and walked to and fro.

He too rose and came slowly towards her, and she was utterly shaken by the lithe movement of his lean body, by the sense of his power and strength. She’d never met anyone like him, and she knew she was in deep, deep trouble.

‘You will be Paulette,’ he said. ‘We shall make you Paulette in every way.’