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With twenty-four hours left to go, they were ready Kara had spent her days over the last fortnight alhts in bed with Dylan aboard the Love Tug Her body ached pleasurably froht back Had it really only been a feeeks since she’d first laid eyes on hier as the essence of hih, he made her moan, and he made her screa about you, be strong Billy wouldn’t want you cry today, okay? It’s launch night here for the new club, I’ll raise a beer to hiht

M x

To:

Froh soraphs of you boys I doubt your brother will even register the date Three years without Billy already It feels like sothat you’re out of it

Mom xx

Dylan pushed his e of his h photos of her children in happier times Scabbed knees and awful haircuts aplenty, no doubt, Billy always the joker with the biggest s pain jostled his heart at the thought of Billy, his older brother by two years and his best friend as they grew up He scrubbed his hands over his face harshly, trying to erase his ive this day his all He was more than aware that without this job he’d o to so didn’t suit hi fa cut adrift Somehow he’d fallen on his feet here, into a job that consumed him, with people who invited him to bask in the war about the girl was pure gold, and every day the seeds of fear e her invest her feelings, and he was investing his own, but it was all built on a house of cards One push, and it would all fall in Bitter experience had taught hi, but nohen it came to Kara, he wasn’t so sure If he was any kind of man he’d call a halt to it, but she had him enthralled His brain said back off, but the rest of his body refused to listen His cock stirred at the scent of her, and his mood lifted whenever she was near

When it came to Kara Brookes, he feared he was a very selfish man

Chapter Seventeen

The staff had all been on site since just after five, and Kara’s entire body vibrated with first night nerves This was by noto slow the flood of adrenalin through her veins She lived for nights like this - the thrills, the anticipation, the risk

Not that there was much risk, really Lucien and Dylan had made sure of that where the club was concerned, and she and Sophie were one hundred percent ready for curtain up in the boutique

She looked slowly around, a careful three hundred and sixty degree spin Every shelf stocked, every cabinet artfully lit, every ant boudoir, a sexy prelude to the main event

Over the past few years she’d becorown to love it even She’d never been inside one as a paying custoh, yet the idea of working here alongside Dylan over the summer made her body thrum with lust Not that they could or would take part in the front of house action, but every ti bent over it by Dylan

Launch night The calm before the storm She closed her eyes and breathed deeply This was no ine velvet corset dress with sousto an hour or so back They both wore the saestive uniform that set the tone perfectly, both sophisticated and sexy as sin The three freshly trained boutique staff were silanced up as Lucien appeared in the doorway

"Got five minutes?" he asked Even Kara had to admit he looked lethal, dressed in black from head to toe, the perfect canvas to set off his bronzed Viking looks "Looking good, Mr K," she grinned, following hied that good as Lucien looked, he didn’t have the same flip-flop effect on her heart as the beautiful Ae chahing at so Dylan had said Lucien crossed to stand behind her, his fingers idly toying with the laces down the back of her corset

"If you keep that up, the boutique custoained for," she said dryly, wriggling her shoulders to stop hi her bodice

"You can keep it on for now But I get to take it off later," healready?" Kara asked, accepting the glass that Dylan held out to her His fingers brushed warainst hers She noticed how his eyes were drawn to her er than could be considered polite, and knew that whatever was going on inside his head that very second would be deliciously filthy A ht her that he was a man who loved sex voraciously, and when it cah They screwed, and she just wanted hiain, only harder Rinse and repeat He had a way ofher feel alive and beautiful, as if her every curve was his idea of perfection He went straight to her head, and she found that she just wanted more, more, more

"Okay Doors open in fifteen, and we all need to be outside to reet The press are out in force from what I can see out there, so be ready to turn on the charm and smile for the cameras," Lucien said, his eyes on the screen of the outdoor surveillance monitor tucked away in the corner of the bar No one noticed the frown that puckered Dylan’s brow as he followed Lucien’s gaze, sipping his cha back to thelass in their hand "To Gateway Ibiza, and all who screw in her"