Broken Vow's

hat he had slipped into his own language until after he'd quoted

for no other reason than he felt good to know he had

th in Angie's thieving rat o

r open in his desk and removed a manila file. A few minutes after that he rang for his car to be brought round to the front of the buildin

back and closed his eyes to contemplate netting a

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en hit strangulation levels. ' you've

itchen chair, her brothe

t that did not mean she wante

o find Alex already waiting for her, she'd been too pleased to see him to question why he'd made the journey up from Cambridge midweek

ng to keep her voice level. ' instead of attending to your stu

market isn't gambl

all it, then?'

cula

ame, Alex!' Angie instantly fired

uni is doing it! You can make a fortune r

t you've been doing, Angie fed back. And if you've been making your fortune sp

h spiky brown hair and vivid green eyes shot through with burning defense. He threw himself across the room

, Angie gave him a minute to get a hold of himself before she

ot going t

tyle had been mortgaged to the hilt. What bit was left after probate had finished liquidating their few assets had been barely enough to pay her brothers boarding school fees for the next year. She'd been forced to walk away from her own private education and take two jobs a day in

ounters in a London department store day by day, and serving tables in a busy city restaurant by night, before going ho

se she hadn't been getting enough to eat her emerald green eyes, and the bright auburn hair set against her dramatically pale skin. Without really knowing how it had h

ion drum of the world. She'd stood for hours while designers fitted their creations to her long slender figure, or posed in front of cameras for glossy fashio

ing his more privileged school friends enjoyed doing. When he'd won a place at cambia she'd felt pleas

er reverie. You're used to having money to

e never denied you a single thing y

ing that stuck