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“Everything has been taken care of,” he said
Really? Just like that, huh?
And she let hi causes someone’s near-death and you just make a few phone calls and you wipe the record clean, huh? Hoonderful it h power to walk all over people, rewrite history and co s, his incredible eyes narrowing, heating up It enraged her more, made her even more fluent in her abuse
“So how have you reconstructed the accident?” she plowed on “That you stopped of your own accord and rushed to help the poor driver? What have you decidedunder the influence of alcohol or …?”
He placed one finger over her lips And she went h skin on hers, the masculinity and power and that scent that was all hi her pass out with the pressure of sensations … Too et out of here Get away frouess you can do whatever you please—as I’o now” She cursed herself for the wobble in her voice “You’ve already made me an hour late for my appointment”
All lightness seeped fro there “You don’t need to worry about that About anything” Then he lowered the barrier between them and his driver and ordered, “Seeda”
The powerful car shot forward instantly, soundlessly, eating up the asphalt, taking her who knehere
A minute later she finally found her voice “Can you, please, order your driver to stop? I’ll take another taxi”
“Do you see an abundance of taxis around here?”
“That’sto differ”
“Listen, I have the number of the company that sent ht, but if you just let et out of your hair and—”
“Now, that’s a lovely ie—you in my hair” He looked sideways at her as he sprawled beside her like a lion settling down to a nap “Why would I want you out of it?”
“You’re not lettinghed A sound of such beauty and impact it was cruel “Now there’s an idea And ould blaht, captures her back”
A drea her!
“I—I didn’t pursue you,” she muttered “I just had to make you stop and take responsibility for your callous behavior”
“What callous behavior? I wasn’t driving And my drivers swear they didn’t notice the accident they had caused” Before she flayed him with more sarcasm, he talked across her intended rebuke “But I do assu to an appointment, told theet to bed It see h he had shown such care to the injured driver, his explanations left a lot to be desired She opened herthe last of her irritation, vaporizing any retorts and thoughts
“I don’t consider this an apology,” he h to make up for the accident I indirectly caused and which I can only thank God wasn’t any worse and that you weren’t injured Your driver is being airlifted to the best hospital in Halwan, he will get comprehensive treatment, follow-up and compensation, and his car will be replaced As foruntil n woman had intercepted us and they believed she was h, all disaze swept her in one hot, total body caress that singed her down to the bone “You are more than armed You are lethal”