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“You said you were going alone. You didn’t specify that you intended to remain alone,” he pointed out pleasantly.
She ignored that. “Where are you going?”
“By curious coincidence, I, too, am going for a walk in the countryside, alone.”

He still looked confused but finally he took her hand. “I have come to ask if you will not decide yet. I have made an appointment for reprogramming.”
He looked so earnest Amaryllis didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. It was probably the sweetest thing any man had ever said to her.

She didn’t look at Reese as she headed for the door.
He barred her passage as she reached the opening, bracing his arm against the door frame. “I give you my word I will not betray you.”
Amaryllis glanced up at him and then fixed her stony gaze on the floor. “You already did.”