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She closed her eyes, and then nodded His fingers cupped her chin, a gesture that should have been coht, with too ht He wasn’t interested in her sexually He played with her, just a he’d played with Jerred over dinner So else drove this man

“What is it you really want?” she asked suddenly, opening her eyes

He seemed surprised, and then a look of utter enchant?” he said slowly “Maybe Jerred isn’t such a fool after all I’ about what to do with you,” he continued “Why don’t you run along and get so”

“I’m not tired,” she replied “I’ve only been up for a few hours The ship’s cycle is different than yours”

“Ah, yes,” he said slowly “You’re still on Transit Three tiet you nice roo I have other business to take care of right now You’ll be fine on your own, I assume?”

She nodded, still unsure of hi away froain?”

“Giselle Canting,” she said slowly, rising to her own feet

“Miss Canting to her rooive her full access to the station’s libraries I certainly wouldn’t want her to get bored”

He nodded to her, then stroke out of the room She looked to Gwendlyn, who snored her

Clearly, they didn’t consider her a threat

Chapter Eight

Sitting in the cell, waiting wasfroo and information past Josiah a thousand times and the man had never shown an interest in his ship before Hell, half the ti deal

He should haveSure, it would have caused so Giselle safe was ht stopped hi Giselle safe more important than his mission? She was just a woman, one of thousands

Even as he told himself that, he kneas a lie Giselle was farnext to Josiah had made his blood pump hard He’d wanted to kill the ht slowly Although the guards would probably have killed theine doing anything thatas she was alive, there was still hope for her He needed to focus on that Thehe could do was deflect Josiah’s attention fronore her

Hopefully