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Leonidas wondered when she had developed the atrocious habit of re it back to hi on a fire when he didn’t feel like a blaze ‘That’s not why I kissed you, hara mou’

‘Isn’t it?’

‘No It is not,’ Leonidas framed with succinct bite

Maribel tossed her head as e her tiara ‘Well, I don’t believe you’

‘Why don’t we leave our guests to party alone and head straight to the bedrooht now, mali mou?’ Leonidas intoned that offer in the softest, silkiest voice i Would you believe er rather than a wish to pose for the camera-lens powered me?’

Violet-blue eyes wide, her heart thudding at the foot of her throat with shock, Maribel stared up at hilittered down at her in a ruthless challenge that was all rogue male laced hite-hot sexuality Her a their guests and all the hoopla that would go with entertaining them was a prospect that held considerable attraction for Leonidas

‘Yes, it would…er…but I really don’t think that we need go that far,’ she muttered hurriedly

‘No?’ His entire attention elded to her Not by so much as a flicker did he betray any awareness of the staff asse procession of liuests

‘No,’ she whispered unevenly

Leonidas stroked a blunt brown forefinger across the flush of colour illu her creamy complexion ‘No?’ he queried thickly ‘Even if it’s what I want most in the world at this moment, hara mou?’

Her heart was racing Her breath had snarled up in her throat His dark, rich drawl, his brilliant, provocative gaze, controlled her She could feel the wild heat in his quivered under her Don’t I get priority? he had asked the night before Suddenly she wanted to give him that priority, no matter what the cost