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He eyed the remnants of his surprise—strawberries and truffles for both of the water for hi when he’d appeared at his desk on i up the clothes they’d discarded He hung up her things first, s at the corset and minuscule panties she’d worn underneath her conservative suit She knew just how to tantalize hi up his own suit, e white fluttered to the ground

He bent over to retrieve it It was a business card with printed lettering

Christa Peterson, MA

Graduate Student

Department of Italian

Columbia University

Email: [email protected]

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Tel (212) 458-2124

Gabriel stared in disgust at the ite, in a sloping woht

With a curse, Gabriel crumpled the card and threw it into the wastepaper basket

Christa must have slipped it in his pocket the day before No doubt she’d written on the card before she saw hi planned her seduction in advance Perhaps she’d even traveled to Oxford solely for that purpose

Given that explanation, much of her behavior eous actions were carefully calculated to entrap hi on his desire to protect his wife Of course, that didn’t stop Christa fro she wouldn’t be able to hold on to her husband, as if Christa knew her seduction would be successful

His sto at Julia’s face in profile as she slept They’d enjoyed an evening of tremendous pleasure, and Christa wished to take that away from them Her lust had turned into envy and treachery as she conspired to becoood thing Julia didn’t find that card

Hopefully, she would have confronted hione and bared her soul to Paul

A tre career was precious His e was precious And he wasn’t about to let anyone or anything threaten either

Picking up his cell phone, he strode back to the bathroo the number for John Green, his lawyer

In the Malmaison Hotel in Oxford Castle, Christa stood in front of the bathroo over where the skin was split She winced, slowly inspecting the bruise that was blosso into her flesh

She looked terrible

She’d opened the door to her roo to see Professor E there, drunk and furious

He’d pushed past her and locked the door, ranting about how she was going to cost him an academic position in America His rants were slurred and in Italian