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‘It was the first job I was offered,’ Merry ad her da to move on’

Rising to his feet, ht, he extended a slim file ‘Find so Check out this business and provide me with an accurate assessment of its financial history and current performance If you do it well, I’ll interview you this afternoon’

That afternoon, he settled the file back on the desk and surveyed her, his wide, sensual‘You did very well but you’re a little too cautious in your forecasts I enjoy risk,’ he i with amuseot the job I hope you can take the heat Not everyone can’

‘If you shout at me, I’ll probably shout back,’ Merry warned him warily

And an appreciative grin slashed his shapely lips,him so powerfully attractive that for a split second she simply stared, unable to look away ‘You may just work out very well’

So began thelife Merry was the el’s personal staff but the one he always entrusted with figures Sybil was thrilled by the promotion her niece had won but would have been horrified by the long hours Merry worked and the amount of responsibility she carried

‘The boss has got the hots for you,’ one of her male co-workers told her with amusement when she had been twoall those long tall blondes he parades through here don’t, because he’s alatching you’

‘I haven’t noticed anything,’ she said fired

But even as she spoke she knew she was very carefully iel’s vicinity because she was conscious of him in a way she had not been conscious of a h to risk a head-on collision with his spectacular liquid honey eyes, her tummy somersaulted, herlike that mortified her She kneas attraction and she didn’t like it, not only because he was her boss, but also because it made her feel out of control

And then fate took a hand when Merry firmly believed that neither of theious flu virus had decimated the staff and as his ely exposed to working alone with Angel At the office late one evening, he offered her a drink and a ride ho it unwise, and yes to the ride because it would get her home faster

In the lift on the way down to the underground car park, Angel studied her with solden eyes She felt dizzy and hot, as if her clothes were shrink-wrapped to her skin, preventing her froered brown hand and traced his fingertips along the full curve of her lower lip in a caress that left her treh some invisible line of restraint had snapped inside hiainst the rily, feverishly, wildly with the kind of passion she was defenceless against

‘Coled to pull herself back together while the lift doors stood open beside them

Her flushed face froze ‘Absolutely not We et about it’

‘That’s not always possible,’ Angel breathed thickly ‘I’ve been trying to forget about the way you make me feel for weeks’

Disconcerted by that blunt admission as he stepped out of the lift, Merry nore it’

Angel stared back at her in wondernore it?’

As the lift doors began to close with her still inside it, he reached in and held them open ‘Come on’

‘I’ll get the Tube as usual’

‘Don’t be childish,’ Angel ground out ‘I am fully in control’

Merry wasn’t convinced, rerab and the slaainst the lift wall, but that instant of hesitation was her undoing because without hesitation Angel closed a hand over hers and pulled her out of the lift ‘I’ll drop you home’