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“Well?”
It was the way he said it The condescension was toopeople to serve you? Why don’t you serve it yourself? Or are you handy only withfood a lowly ferown another head
No wonder He must be shocked that she could still talk She knew she was And more, that she could talk to him that way No doubt people didn’t dare sneeze in his presence
Mennah squealed, deain this incredible transfor transmission as he turned to Mennah with a smile that taain
“You heard that, ya sagheerati? Youras you’re around” He turned eyes heavy with disturbing things on Carets there will be tier of the sensuality infusing his words kicked into Carmen’s heart and loins It made her melt It made her htened fro aboutAnd I need no shields against you”
“You don’t?” His stare was allher more rope “Are you certain about that?”
Oh God, as she doing, provoking him this way? She knew she was no match for him, even in her own country No one was a match for him, anywhere He was just too powerful, as a diplo hernot on Mennah’s presence but on his restraint, his basic benevolence Both qualities she’d already strained to the li her now After the upheaval of the last hour, her ehts, without brakes
“It’s clear you have an ego of planetary proportions,” she taunted “Youit around And to think I once contributed to expanding it”
His gaze scraped down her body,her exposed, vulnerable “You think your being the first and only woo?”
Was that an edge of bitterness? Had her desertionto him after all, on a personal level?
No This intensity e of a prince who expected people to prostrate themselves before him, who couldn’t believe that, for whatever reason, she hadn’t, just that once
She shrugged, all artificial ani out of her “Oh, I’m sure I caused a chink in it One that could be detected with a alactic scope Don’t you mean a telescope?”
“Whatever” She exhaled, ran both hands through her hair “I’o is satisfied, now that you knohy I did end it”
His eyes followed her move her arousal as he drawled, “Oh, I’m not satisfied You’ll have to work to that end Hard And long”