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they have green suction caps all over their faces?”
    Richard groaned. “For God’s sake. Will you people get a life?” He shoved past, using his superior height to shoulder the reporter out of the way.
    “Do I know you?” The reporter’s gaze was on Luke.
    “I don’t think so.” Luke’s reply was brusque. “Dad, I’ll see you back at the house.”
    Richard nodded and escorted Hinekiri past the waiting reporters.
    “I do know him!” the reporter shouted. He grabbed the photographer by the shoulder. “Turn the camera on and keep filming until I tell you to stop.”
    Richard halted, turning around to see the good humor bleaching from his son’s face. Bloody reporters. Why couldn’t they leave Luke alone? The courts had acquitted him of all charges, but the press continued to do a hatchet job on him.
    “I have it.” The man clicked his fingers. “You’re Luke Morgan. Married to Victoria, daughter of Sir Robert Paykel.”
    Anguish flitted across Luke’s face before it blanked.
    “No comment?” the reporter said in an arch manner.
    Luke turned his back to speak with Janaya, ignoring the battery of questions and demands from the reporter.
    Richard led Hinekiri to his vehicle, and Janaya joined them shortly after. The dog unwound from a ball and jumped over into the back. Hinekiri hopped in the front and clicked the seat belt home, her violet eyes sparkling with excitement while Janaya joined the dog in the back.
    Richard waved at Luke then started his vehicle. He backed out of his parking space and drove past the reporters with a scowl on his face. Parasites. “What exactly are we looking for at Robbie’s Car Parts? Did Luke tell you it’s a junkyard?”
    “Perfect,” Hinekiri chirped.
    “What sort of vehicle parts are you searching for? What make of vehicle?”
    Hinekiri beamed. “A silver one.”
    Richard glanced across at her, checking to see if she was joking. Nope. Didn’t look like it. He held back a snort. He liked his women on the intelligent side. Perhaps a date wasn’t such a good idea. Richard sighed, trying to take the sting out of his disappointment. Maybe it was for the best since she seemed a little too independent for his tastes. The thought made him frown. Funny, intelligent and independent usually went together. He glanced across the cab to check her expression to see if she’d been kidding about the silver vehicle. She caught him and sent a saucy wink in his direction. His suspicion deepened. Was she making fun of him?
    He pulled up outside the offices of Fancy Free Limited. “I’ll be ten minutes.” Richard made it back in twenty, his cheeks warm from the discussion of the latest condom model the company was testing. “Sorry,” he said gruffly, trying not to think about condoms and Hinekiri in the same sentence.
    “No problem,” Hinekiri chirped, sending him a wink.
    Ten minutes later, Richard pulled up outside the wreckers. Robbie had stacked large numbers of rusted, buckled car bodies in piles. Some looked as though they might topple in a strong wind. At the far end, car bodies sat in neatly compressed squares. A conveyor belt towered above them, ready to move the wrecked cars along to the compressor. At present, it was idle.
    “Ready? I’ll introduce you to Robbie. Guess I better hunt him out first. Be back in a minute.” Richard felt her gaze on his back when he strode away. He really did prefer a woman who thought independently. After Felicity, he needed…
    Richard pushed aside the thought as disloyal and concentrated on Hinekiri instead. How could he have been so wrong? Despite the attraction arcing between them, a relationship wouldn’t work since she was just passing through.
    Richard couldn’t find Robbie. The man wasn’t in the small tin shed office so Richard decided to rejoin the women. He spotted them checking the scrap at closer quarters. “Robbie must have popped out to the bank. Or he might be at the café since he’s sweet on the owner.”
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