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But he did care

Underneath all that hard-as-nails exterior, he wasn’t as blasé as he wanted her to believe Otherwise he wouldn’t have sat down and talked to her at all

Heading over to the bank of s that overlooked the front of the mansion, she pulled back the lacy privacy curtain and waited A rand entrance,off down the slate ay

"Look at me," she whispered "Come on … you know you want to"

In the back of her hteous speeches about professionalism and self-control to the contrary, a part of her really wanted the male to pull a John Cusack on the front lawn

Which was nuts

And not as in clinically insane

More as in a road she shouldn’t go down, given their circuood news? As he continued to stride away fro to--

Axwelle stopped about fifteen feet past the third lantern on the ay … and he stayed where he was for the longest tiive up or go down to see if that head injury she’d asked about had finally decided to lanced back

His chin lifted as if his eyes were traveling up to the second floor

With a squeak, Elise jerked back out of sight and let the curtain fall into place once more

Her heart thundered behind her sternum and a hot flush made her take off her cashmere sweater like it was a medieval hair shirt

As she turned away, she looked over at the sunken impression in the duvet where he’d sat on her bed Froo over and run her hand over the spot