Unbelievable. First she’d had the very bad taste to show up at his home with extortion demands. Now, after he’d rescued her from certain exposure as a fraud, she had the effrontery to act as though he was imposing on her. “I’m not letting you go until we get a few things settled,” he said. She stopped dead in her tracks, bringing both of them to a complete halt in the middle of one of the park’s busiest footpaths. “What’s left to settle? I did my best to threaten you, and it didn’t work.” “And now you think I’ll just let you go away again?” She looked at him as if he were quite stupid. “Why not?” “Why not?” he repeated. “You’re a jewel thief.” “No more than you are.” “A jewel thief,” he repeated, “and a blackmailer. You brought the whole sordid business to my home, and you expect me to simply wish you a good day and send you off?” He didn’t add that she’d fascinated him the night before.
