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‘There are boundaries that shouldn’t be crossed,’ she told him with precision on the way to his car

‘Don’t preach at el sliced back in a driven undertone ‘I don’t have a history ofmoves on my staff You are a one-off’

‘And it won’t happen again now that we’re both on our guard so let’s forget about it,’ Merry counselled, sliding breathlessly into a long silver low-slung bullet of a vehicle that she suspected orth many ti a mistake’

‘You’re preaching again,’ Angel derided ‘If I hadn’t stopped kissing you we’d still be in the lift!’

‘No I would’ve pushed you away,’ she insisted with cool assurance

She gave hih he didn’t seeh heavy traffic was silent, tense and unnerving He pulled up at the kerb outside the ugly building where she lived ‘You could afford to live in a better area than this,’ he censured

‘I have a healthy savings account,’ she told hi her seat belt at the saain

His wide sensual er and no sh he had punched a button detonating soling awareness in her pelvis that ht

Angel lifted his tousled dark head ‘I’ me away You’re all talk and no action,’ he condemned

‘I don’t think you’d appreciate a slap,’ Merry fra with mortification

‘If itfor it,’ Angel husked suggestively, soft and low, the growl of his accent shaking her up

Merry launched out of his sports car as though jet-propelled, uncharacteristically flustered and shaken that she had failed to live up to her own very high principles on acceptable behaviour She should’ve pushed him away, slapped hi less would cool his heels He was a highly co challenge

His car stayed at the kerb until she stalked into the building and only then did she breathe again, filling her coh she had stepped out of a freezing snowstorm She felt all shaken up, shaken up and stirred in a way she didn’t appreciate and almost hated him for

The feel of his e of heat hurtling at breakneck speed down into her belly and spreading to other, ht about How dared he do that to her? She would lodge a complaint of sexual harassel, he wouldn’t care, wouldn’t even stop to consider that he was playing with fire Indeed, the knowledge would only energise and stimulate him because he loved to push the limits

She curled up tight in her bed that night, overwhelmed by her first real experience of sexual temptation When he kissed her she couldn’t think, couldn’t breathe A kiss had never had that effect on her before and she was unnerved by the discovery that a kiss could be that influential She toyed with the idea of co fearlessly in the face of such a threat and finally decided that she didn’t want the embarrassment of that on her employment record Particularly when such a claiiven him an immediate rejection

The next day she was very nervous going into work, but Angel didn’t do or say anything that was different and she was strangely irritated by that reality: that he could act as though he had never offered to take her hoht and, afterwards, simply treat her like everyone else But those saher price for her It was as though he had stripped away her tough outer layer and chipped her out of her cautious shell to ensure that she began feeling physical and emotional responses she had comfortably held at bay until she’d met him