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The contrast between Ca with the opposites of a coin Night and day Ca, the do in his eyes and in his expression Jaci had a feeling that when it ca, when finally shown that dark, inner core that he kept hidden

"It’s a good thing I’m a reasonable, patient woman," she told hiht have to kill both of you"

She heard his chuckle behind her before he one, she could still feel the effect of him Or was it the effect Cam had left her with?

Daht noo men to deal with instead of one? Most women were lucky and just didn’t know it They only had to deal with one ht just couldn’t do it the easy way, could she? She had to go out and get herself tangled up with a s about her that he should want to keep for hi the hallway, she turned the corner to the residential wing of the house and moved toward Courtney and Ian’s suite As she neared the door, it opened and a stranger stepped fro, tall, seriously handsome, and as dark as sin She’d seen his picture a thousand tiazines, and had had the pleasure ofhis sister the year before in London

Khalid el Hamid Mustafa The bastard son of a Middle Eastern prince

As he turned fro over her slowly, dark black eyes rich icked, carnal lights slid over her body before co to a stop at her eyes

"Ah, such beauty and fire" He s curve to his lips, she was certain Unfortunately, it left her cold and had little effect on theinside her body

Thick black hair was pulled back to the nape of his neck and tied there It appeared long enough to fall well below his shoulders He was dressed in dark gray slacks and a white silk shirt unbuttoned at the throat His eyes gleahts that a woine

Jaci paused several feet fro as she saw the faint reserown so fond of last year

"Mr Mustafa," she greeted hirin

He blinked back at her in surprise "Have wesuch exquisite beauty"

"I e," she informed him "She warned me to steer a wide path around you"

His expression flickered with fondness and as to heart," he told her, the faint foreign flavor of his voice as sexy as his eyes And it pissed her off, because she should have been swooning at his feet, just as Paige had warned her not to do Unfortunately, there wasn’t a single swoon inside her, because he couldn’t co forbidden fruits, either," she warned hie enjoys warning all the beautiful wo back to flash strong, white teeth "But I promise you, I am not in the least forbidden You may saht in his eyes, the look of a man who enjoyed the chase just as much as he enjoyed the capture

"I think I’ll pass" She declined his very char offer with a wide smile "As lovely as the offer sounds, I’m really pretty busy these days, and I’d hate to be unable to give you all the attention I’hed at that, then tilted his head and watched her for a long, assessing ht, that Courtney has been telling me so much about She said you had a beautiful, fearsome wit I see she was correct"

"I don’t kno fearsome it is, but it’s wit anyway" She extended her hand "It’s been interesting to e you no longer ravish woht"

His hand enfolded hers before he pulled her to hiainst his chest to find herself the recipient of a quick, laughing kiss to the corner of her lips, before she was carefully set away froain intact; you e you were ravished after all"

"You are a rogue" She laughed

"He’s also endangered if he doesn’t take his fucking hands off you"

Jaci whirled around, shock, anger, a ht of Cae, eyes narrowed and dangerous

Behind hiaze ry Cary

He strode down the hall just as the door to Courtney and Ian’s suite opened and Ian stepped outside

The tension tightened around her, trapped between the fourfrom the doorway, all eyes on her

Suddenly she decided she’d rather face the Robertses on a bad day than thein the hallway

"Courtney, tell me you have coffee" She turned to her friend desperately

Courtney took one look at Cam as he stopped behind Jaci, lifted her brows and drawled "Jaci, I can go you one better I have whisky And fro to need it"

She stepped outside the door, snagged Jaci’s wrist, and pulled her inside before slaainst the panel and blew out hard breaths

"Life getting interesting?" Courtney asked her as Jaci stared straight ahead into the elegantly appointed sitting roos, the heat in her lower stomach "Is it like this around here very often?"