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His lips twitched "Will you stay, Ms Hughes?"

"Will I have that coirl "Of course I’ll have the ratified contract to you by the end of the day"

Julia studied hiht she was going to turn hi until she said yes

She exhaled roughly "All right I’ll stay"

Lucian opened hisher hand "But we’re not going to talk about last night Again All right? We’re going to pretend it never happened"

He inclined his head

Her eyes narrowed, but then she turned away and picked up her purse With her back to hi his lips He didn’t proht or to pretend that it hadn’t happened Lucian was a lot of things, but he didn’t

As Julia followed Lucian Taylor de Vincent back to the roo the amount of money he’d whispered in her ear He couldn’t be serious

A ht not be , that was the kind of money she could live off for decades

She was in a daze--had been since she realized that she’d be working for the de Vincents and then evenoffered a et the hell out of here?

In all honesty, there wasn’t a single part of her that wondered if she should turn the money down Who would? Seriously? It wasn’t like he was offering her a million to have sex with him or to murder someone

And she didn’t even have the brain space at the ure out how he felt about what had happened between theht before She didn’t even kno she felt about it now This rets" but now? Julia couldn’t quite clai a lot for her to believe that he’d had no intention of al up when they first ain, stopping her fro

He winked

Insufferable

That hat he was An insufferable jerk who just offered her a million dollars to complete the job she was hired to do

An insufferable jerk who’d also given her the first not self-induced orgasoing to focus on

Devlin was still in the roo into the phone and then slipped it into the pockets of his pants His expected gaze settled on her

Julia kneas tihtened "Let’s try this again" She offered her hand to the oldest brother "I’hes"

Dev took her hand, shook it, and then dropped it like any nor withthat she wasn’t blushing, she nodded

"Then, please have a seat"

She sat back down, and much to her displeasure, Lucian dropped back down on the couch beside her "I’ht a little off guard by, well, everything" She squared her shoulders "I was under the ihter I had no idea that it ell, that you" She peeked at Lucian He was back to watching her with that s for your family"