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‘Fortunately, you no longer have to look after your own hair,’ Angel informed her lazily ‘Add a stylist to your staff—’

Merry opened pale blue eyes very wide ‘I’asped

‘Of course You’ll need a social secretary to take care of your calendar, soel volunteered doubtfully ‘I’ve started you off with a neardrobe—’

‘Have you indeed?’ Merry cut in jerkily

‘It’s a wedding present I wasn’t sure you’d want to be bothered,’ Angel volunteered, a fingertip tracing the quivering fullness of her lower lip, sending a shiver through her taut, slender body ‘You’ve never struckthat interested in clothes or appearances’

‘I’ to persuadewas enjoyable’

‘I don’t want you having to do things you don’t want to do,’ Angel told her huskily ‘I don’t want you to change who you are to fit into my world, so it’s easier to have someone else take care of the less welcome aspects for you’

Her heartbeat was thu chest ‘You like me the way I am?’

‘Very el asserted ‘You’re unusual and I value that’

A smile slowly tilted and softened the tense line of herhair?’

A wolfish grin slashed his expressive h-cheekboned perfection and interesting hollohile his intense gaze held hers fast ‘Only from the first moment I saw you’