Element of Risk

the long version

I thought I was rid of you why the hell did you have to come back?" It was eleven years--two lifetimes ago--since Perdita Gladstone and Luke Dennison had met last. Now the legacy of their shared past required another encounter. Perdita was no longer a gawky girl, but an assured woman with an international career. But did she have the confidence to handle a man like Luke, who made it clear that her reappearance in his life was not a welcome one?