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Her vision became tunnelled, the world tipped upside down, and Roxy forgot to breathe. When she did fill her lungs it was with a gulp. Then she coughed and had to cover her mouth with the napkin.

‘You must have a temperature,’ she said over the square of linen. ‘You’re delirious.’

‘You have everything to gain, nothing to lose.’

‘Except Maria’s friendship when she bans me from her life for deceiving her.’

‘I’m betting she’ll name their first girl child after you. If not …’ his smile softened ‘… she’ll understand. That’s what friends do.’

Slowly Roxy set her napkin down. ‘You’d really commit to walking me down the aisle in that dress?’

‘It’s for a good cause. Besides, there’s such a thing as annulment.’ His laugh was a little too quick. ‘We’re not talking for real here, Roxy, just a means to an end. We both agreed. Neither of us is after that kind of commitment.’

She blinked and felt her cheeks go warm. Well, of course that was what he’d meant. This proposition was another of his angles to get to where he—and in this case she—wanted to go.

‘Was that a yes?’ he asked.

She frowned. She hadn’t said that. She couldn’t agree. ‘That’s too wild an idea.’

‘Way I see it, for you it’s a safe bet.’