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‘But the choice is not yours. I thought I had made that clear.’
    ‘But you can’t keep me here against my will.’ By a superhuman effort she kept her tone level. ‘I should run away.’
    He looked at her mockingly. ‘In this climate, thespinis ? And naked and barefoot. I don’t think so.’
    She began, ‘But I’m not naked...’ then stopped, as she read the message in his dark gaze. She stepped backwards, clutching defensively at the towel. ‘You wouldn’t.’
    ‘I advise you not to put it to the test,’ he said. ‘Besides, where would you run to—the village? They would send you back.’
    ‘But they can’t be the only people around. There’s a bus and ..her voice tailed off as she saw his mouth twist derisively.
    ‘The bus called yesterday, thespinis . It will not be here again for a week.’ He shrugged. ‘Who knows—perhaps by that time I will have had enough of you anyway.’
    ‘And I’ve had enough of you now,’ Gemma flared at him. ‘You must be out of your mind to threaten me like this. You can’t really imagine I’m going to hang around here so that you can—rape me.’
    ‘I have no intention of raping you, thespinis ,’’ he said gently. ‘I shall use no more force towards you than your brother did to Maria,’ he added huskily.
    She swallowed. For one terrible moment, she’d had an image of those firm lips crushing hers, parting them—the lean, brown hands caressing and intimate.
    She said on a whisper, ‘Touch me and I’ll kill you.’
    He laughed. ‘You have spirit. I approve of that. Our time together should prove more pleasurable than I anticipated.’
    ‘There’ll be no time together.’ Gemma closed her eyes wearily. ‘If you do any of the things you’ve threatened, then I shall go to the authorities. You can’t hope to get away with it. We’re not living in the Dark Ages.’
    ‘And what will you tell these authorities? That you went to Knossos and picked up a rich Greek for a little adventure, and found you were out of your depth? Because that is what I will tell them. And the waiter in the taverna will confirm my story. He saw us watching each other, and he believes your hurried departure was only to lure me on. He told me I was a fortunate man, and wished me well,’ he added.
    ‘How nice for you,’ she flashed. ‘Perhaps if he’d known what you really intended, he’d have told you that you were off your head.’
    ‘Perhaps,’ he smiled a little grimly. ‘But we shall never know.’
    ‘Why were you at Knossos anyway?’ Curiosity got the better of her.
    ‘I needed to see you before I put my plan into operation. When I rang the hotel and was told you were catching a bus to Knossos, I decided to follow. The hotel said—two English girls travelling together. You were not hard to pick out.’ He paused. ‘And then, your companion called you Gemma, and I was sure.’
    Shakily, she remembered the photograph, and the waves of burning anger reaching her.
    ‘Wasn’t the trip a little unnecessary,’ she asked coldly. ‘As you’d apparently already made up your mind what you were going to do.’
    ‘Ah,’ he said softly. ‘But you might have been ugly or undesirable.’
    She swallowed, ‘And if I had been, you’d have— changed your plan?’ Her voice shook. ‘My God, I wish I had a harelip, a hunchback and a squint.’
    ‘Such a combination might have given me pause,’ he admitted mockingly. ‘As it is——’ His eyes went over her again, stripping, assessing, while the angry colour flared in her face. ‘As it is, I have little to complain about. You are a little skinny for my taste, but in a situation like ours, one cannot have everything.’
    She was mute with rage and humiliation, her hands curling instinctively into claws at her side, a movement which was not lost on him.
    He smiled faintly. ‘Scratch me in passion, little cat, but not in anger, or you will be sorry.’ He pulled back the cuff of his full-sleeved white shirt and