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discuss her with you.”
    Kara nodded. “Okay. Then I have only one more question for you.”
    “Go ahead.”
    She took another sip of her coffee and then crossed the room to put her cup and saucer on the tray before looking at him again.
    “Do you want to marry me?”
    He considered it one more time, because he knew that once he committed himself to Kara, he’d have given his word, and his word was one thing he prided himself on keeping.
    “Yes,” he said at last. “I do want to marry you, Kara. I think we’d make a good match, and we have passion between us. There’s little more that any couple can ask for.”
    She bit her lower lip. “What about love?”
    He opened his mouth to respond, but she laughed before he could.
    “That’s right, you don’t believe in romantic love. Well I’m a bit of a silly girl at times, Gui, and I do believe in it. So I’m going to have to ask you one more question.”
    “Go ahead.”
    “If you marry me, will you be true to our marriage vows? Because the one thing I can’t stand is infidelity. If you fall in love with someone else, I’d expect you to come to me and tell me.”
    “What would you do if that happened?” he asked, knowing it wouldn’t, because he had never felt even the slightest twinge of love for a woman. Passion, lust, fiery temper, obsession, sure, but love? Never.
    “I would be upset, of course, but we’d divorce and I’d give you leave to pursue the woman you loved,” she said at last.
    He nodded, understanding what she was asking him. He’d never been in a monogamous relationship before, and he had no idea how long it would appeal to him. But his brother had made a success of his marriage, as had his father and uncles. There was no reason why he couldn’t, as well.
    “If I fall in love with someone else, I’ll expect you to do the same.”
    He shook his head. “No. You will not fall in love with anyone else.”
    “Gui—”
    “This isn’t open for negotiation, Kara. You will not look at another man or flirt with another man. Once you have committed yourself to me, you will be true to that bond.”
    “Yet there is a chance you might not be?” she asked, crossing her arms over her chest.
    “Highly doubtful, mi dulce. But I’ve never contented myself with only one woman before…”
    “Gui, you’re not doing a good job of convincing me to marry you.”
    “I believe you already have decided to, and we are just ironing out the details now.”

    Two days later Kara still wasn’t sure how she’d come to agree to marry Guillermo. He’d taken complete control of planning their wedding. She’d been wined and dined all over Manhattan, and now she was on an evening flight on his private jet to Madrid. He insisted there was only one place in the world where he could get his favorite breakfast.
    Vincent, Gui’s secretary/butler, was accompanying them, as was Cynthia, Kara’s assistant, who always traveled with her. Gui was busy at his desk on one side of the plane, answering e-mails and talking on the phone.
    Kara tried to relax but she couldn’t. All of her friends thought that Gui was the most romantic man they’d ever met, and to some extent Kara agreed with them, because she was the one basking in his attention. But there was another part of her that knew he was acting like a loving man to spin the gossip about them.
    The Countess Elvira had done her best to spread some negative stories about Gui. Almost every day, another story appeared somewhere either in print or on the Web. Kara, who rarely found herself in any society article, was now being actively courted by TMZ. com and Hello! magazine.
    She had promised Katie that, if she suddenly decided to be interviewed about her playboy fiancé, she’d give her an exclusive. But Kara wasn’t interested in talking to anyone about Gui. Most articles about the two of them focused on their whirlwind courtship and the fact that Count Gui, as the press referred to him, was so enamored of her, he