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“You didn’t have to!” she flared

“You took me by surprise, Rachel” Gard atte “Over the years I’ve met a few successful female executives You just don’t look the type”

“And what is the type?” Hot ice crystallized in her voice as she threw hi jackets with padded shoulders?” She didn’t wait for hiust “That is the most sexist idea I’ve ever heard!”

“That isn’t what I meant at all, but the point is well taken,” he conceded with a beeneralizing”

She was too angry to care that Gard ado back to the shipor go drive around in your rented car? Go do whatever it is that you want to do and leaveme!”

“I rong and I apologize,” Gard repeated with a s smile “Let’s find a restaurant and have some lunch”

“You simply don’t listen, do

you?” she declared in taut anger and looked rawly around the immediate vicinity

A unifor on the corner only a few yards away Rachel acted on ih the idea In a running walk she swept past Gard and hurried toward the policeman

“Officer?” she called to attract his attention

He turned, his alert, dark eyes iht with a stocky, muscular build His broad features had a no-nonsense look, reinforced by a full black mustache He walked tobehind her to Gard

“Officer, this lance on Gard as he leisurely came up to stand behind her

His expression continued to exhibit patience, but there was a hard glint in his eyes, too, at her new tactic When she looked back at the policeman, Rachel wasn’t sure he had understood her

“This estured toward Gard “I want him to stop it and leave me alone”

“The señor makes trouble for you?” the officer repeated in a thick accent to be certain he had understood