She hugged her knees and sat so still that presently a tiny green lizard flicked out from a crack and sunned itself beside her, the minute throat pulsating.Marco’s stated purpose in bringing her to his villa was to keep an eye on his mother during his sister’s absence, but it was beginning to look as if he had another, and secret, purpose of his own.It could be that the gate to the beach path was normally padlocked. It could be that Dino had not understood her repeated requests to be taken to the harbour. Maybe she was making a mountain out of a molehill.It’s not that he planned to seduce me, she decided. He’s shown no signs of being impressed by my feminine charm. His only interest in my looks is that I’m very like his sister, and—She caught her breath. Very like his sister!He insisted that she wore Bianca’s clothes. Twice, he had asked her to wave to people at a distance—strangers who couldn’t possibly know her. He had encouraged her to play Bianca’s guitar.‘So!’ She spoke aloud, and the lizard flickered into his crack with the speed of lightning.
