CHAPTER FOURLorenc then stepped away from her so sharply that Ariana fell forward onto her hands.
Raising her head imploringly, she looked up into a face whose features had seemed turned to ice.
“Dukka!” He repeated the name as if it was the name of a plague. “So this is the man you hinted was my ‘superior’? This is the man who will offer you the life of luxury you were born to enjoy?”
He had posed his words as questions, but he waited for no answer.
Cursing to himself, he turned and strode away.
Ariana struggled up onto her feet and stared after him. Bonnie stood to one side looking somewhat stunned at the effect of her revelation.
If she had then expected Lorenc’s attention to pass gratefully to her, she had been proved misguided.
“M-Miss?” she ventured after a moment.
Ariana tur
