A slender elegant figure in cropped brown trousers and a gold T-shirt, Billie paused at the roadside to allow a car to drive past. She gave a weak smile when the car stopped and Damon Marios lowered the window to greet her. ‘I was just about to call on you—’
‘I’m going down to the beach.’
With a nod as if she had issued an invitation, Damon parked his car on the broad verge and got out to join her.
‘I don’t think that us being seen together is likely to do either of us any good,’ Billie remarked, secretly squirming with the anxiety over her marriage, which was urging her to exercise a rare kind of extreme caution. But when Alexei was being seen out and about with Calisto, what was she worrying about?
Damon cupped her elbow to steady her as she stumbled on her descent of the sloping gro
