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the car as she waited for his response, but he didn’t turn to face her, giving her time to study the outline of his strong jaw, covered by a five o’clock shadow. Moving upwards, his long black eyelashes fanned out and she was almost salivating at his gorgeous profile. Slowly, he turned his head, causing her to squint into his eyes, and then she saw it.
    Gasping in reaction, she knew that look in his eyes. It had been there that night ten years ago. Putting her hand to her chest she could feel the fast pulsing of her heart. Staring back at her was a wild ravenous hunger, smouldering behind the deep blue of his irises. It was a look of promise. A silent message of absolute sexual satisfaction that only a man who has a deep knowing of what a woman needs, can give. A tingle ran down her spine and she licked her lips in anticipation, then he blinked and it was gone, replaced with a steely determination.
    “I think it’s time we talked about what happened ten years ago.”
    Still in the emotional effect of that promise in his eyes, she was caught off guard. Shit! There would be no escape from this one. No Cara here to detour the conversation.
    Desperate to steer it away from any conversation that would reveal April, she tried to end the subject before it even began. “It was such a long time ago Tristan. Why does it matter? Why do we need to rake over old ground? Just let it be.” Nervously, she rubbed her hands along her jean-clad thighs. Going down this route was not going to lead to a happy place.
    He looked at her coolly. “No, I can’t let it be. That night has cost me dearly. My relationship with my grandfather has suffered and I’ve lost ten years of friendship with Wade. We all need some sort of closure.”
    “Closure?” She was genuinely perplexed. “I don’t understand what you mean? You could have picked up the phone and spoken to Wade any time you liked!”
    “And what would I have said? By the way, I took your sister’s virginity, but let’s not allow it to affect our relationship!” Sarcasm dripped from his voice.
    “Well, there’s no need to say it like that!”
    “How else is there to say it Annabelle. It was a one-night stand. Nothing came of it. If Wade had done that to my sister I would have knocked him to the other side of the world.”
    Gawping at him in shock, she replied, “Is that all it was to you?”
    He hadn’t meant to be so blasé. If she knew the truth of how much that one night affected him it would open up a whole new can of worms. It would be a confession that he could never take back and his defences and carefully organised future plans would crumble. No-one had ever been allowed that kind of power over him. “No, you know it was more than that. You were my friend too, but Wade would see it as a one-night conquest.”
    Friend!
    Opening and closing her mouth like a fish wasn’t very attractive, but she’d lived ten years in the shadow of that night, and now it had been reduced to a one-night stand with a friend! Building up her resolve, she closed her mouth, gritted her teeth and rolled her shoulders. “And now you want closure by doing what?”
    A look of sadness swept across his face. “Wade was like a brother to me. I felt like I was lying to him, keeping something from him.” Grabbing the wheel, he watched his knuckles turn white. “I’m now thinking that to solve it you owe me an apology and Wade an explanation.”
    Panic gripped her. “Excuse me! You’re asking me for an apology! You leave here ten years ago, never once coming back nor do you have the decency to pick up the phone, then you show up with your fiancée, storm into my shop, man-handle me and you want an apology from me ! You’re a small minded man Tristan Hemsley-Ford!”
    He clenched his hands even harder around the wheel. “Did you tell him about us?”
    “No.”
    “Why not?”
    A picture of April came into her mind and she looked out of the window so that he wouldn’t see the pain in her