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Turner kicked the door shut "I disagree"
"Turner, don't!" Miranda tugged her aret back to the door to reopen it, but he blocked her way "This is randparents' house I'll not have them shamed by any improper behavior"
"I should think you'd bewhat I have to say to you"
She took one look at his implacable expression and shut her mouth "Very well Say whatever it is you caan to draw lazy circles in her pal about you, Miranda"
"Have you? That's very flattering"
He ignored her snide tone andabout me?"
Oh , dear Lord If he only knew "On occasion"
"Only on occasion?"
"Quite rarely"
He pulled her toward hi her arm "How rarely?" hesofter, and far less sure
"Really?" He raised one of his brows in an incredulous expression "I think all this Scottish food has been addling your brain Have you been eating haggis?"
"Haggis?" she asked breathlessly She could feel her chest growing light, as if the air itself had becorow drunk, just breathing in his presence
"Mmm-hmm Hideous food, I think"
"It's- it's not bad" What was he talking about? And as he looking at her that way? His eyes looked like sapphires No, like aout the ?
Turner s I think you need so fire quickly throughout her body She sagged against hiainst hiainst her "Can you feel what you do to me?" he whispered "Can you?"
Miranda nodded shakily, barely aware that she was standing in the randparents' salon
"Only you can do that to me, Miranda," he murmured huskily "Only you"
That remark struck a discordant chord within her, and she stiffened in his arms Hadn't he just spent more than a month in Kent with his friend Lord Harry Whatever-his-name-was? And hadn't Olivia blithely informed her that the festivities would have included wine, whiskey, and wo?"
His words hispered against her skin, and a part of her wanted to ainst him But she would not be seduced Not this tiainst his chest and pushed "Don't try to do this to me," she warned
"Do what?" His face was the picture of innocence
If Miranda had had a vase in her hands, she would have thrown it at hi to your will"
"Why not?"