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shouldn’t have allowed it to go so far yesterday.”
    Blair lowered her gaze to the food, even though her appetite was now gone. Any second now he’d tell her it had all been a terrible mistake, and he’d beg her not to tell anyone what had happened. She’d been fantasizing about his thick cock inside her for nothing. It wasn’t going to happen again, with him or with Leo.
    “We treated you like…we were terribly insensitive to everything you’ve been through, and I’m sorry.”
    “You regret what you did.”
    He shook his head and frowned. “No, not at all. But the way we handled it wasn’t fair to you.”
    What the hell did that mean? “I don’t understand.”
    Andras frowned. “Look, I have to be honest with you. Leo and I need time to sort out everything you told us yesterday. And Mrs. Stanton is still not convinced her necklace just disappeared overnight, and then mysteriously showed up the next day.”
    Blair lowered her gaze to her plate. “Thank you for not telling her what I did.”
    “If I’d done that we would have had to dismiss you. She’s a paying guest.”
    And I’m just a chambermaid. “Of course,” she whispered.
    “And then we wouldn’t be here, having this wonderful meal. I hope you like lamb.”
    “I love it.” She forced herself to take a bite of meat. It was delicious, but right now it might as well have been cardboard. She was such a damn fool. The rose, the dinner, the secluded location…he’d done this to let her down easy, not to seduce her. She’d let her romantic thoughts get the better of her. Thank God he didn’t know what had been going on inside her head. He’d think her a silly schoolgirl.

Chapter Seven
     
    “Tell me about your life before you came here, Blair.”
    Andras’s words caught her off guard. Was he trying to get more information about her father? “You mean other than what I told you and Leo yesterday?” What exactly had she told them? The details no longer seemed as clear as they had this morning.
    He paused in the middle of bringing food to his mouth, frowned, then put down the utensil. He leaned close, wafting peppermint toward Blair. She didn’t want to enjoy his scent or his eyes anymore. It was too painful now to remember his kisses and the feel of his shaft inside her.
    “Blair, I’m sorry for what you’ve been through. If you need to talk about that we will. But what I’d really like to hear is what you did before all that. Tell me about your childhood.”
    Was he serious? She searched his face, trying to figure out if he was teasing her, but all she saw in his beautiful blue eyes was sincerity. Blair was more confused than ever. What game was he playing? “Well, my best memories are from before my mother passed away. Things were different then, you understand. We went places, like the beach and the museums. And I had someone to talk to.”
    “I’m sorry. I didn’t realize she had died.”
    Blair flushed. “I guess you’ve figured out by now I lied to you and Leo that first day. My parents aren’t both dead.”
    Andras placed a hand on her arm, and she jumped, spilling her food from the fork to the table. She grabbed her napkin to wipe it up, but he took it from her hand and placed it back on the table. “Blair, don’t worry about the story you told us, okay? You were scared and running. I understand why you lied.”
    “Thank you.”
    “Tell me about your mother.”
    She looked into his eyes and blinked back tears. Did he treat all the female staff like this? No, that couldn’t be true. She would have heard something by now. Cindy and her friends were among the worst gossips Blair had ever known. If Andras seduced the staff then went to the trouble of having a romantic dinner made for them, word would have gone around.
    “She died when I was ten. Cancer. It was so fast. It was like watching her shrink little by little each day. There was nothing the doctors could do. She refused to take any morphine the last week. She