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‘Perhaps that’s why he’s being so tolerant After all, kittens and babies underfoot wouldn’t do e’

‘What ie?’

‘Elegant, iuid and cultivated A fastidious pink of the ton on the surface He’s a serious sportsman on the quiet, but unless you saw hiiven for not noticing’

Tess laughed ‘That’s just aexplains the muscles’

‘Have her an old-fashioned look ‘He’s thought about nothing but himself for ten years’ Despite the thickness of her voice she sounded remarkably tart

‘But he is kind’

‘I didn’t say he wasn’t He’s charanises his life so no one gets behind the mask or disturbs his well-ordered life’

Tess kicked off her shoes and curled up in the chair Outside the rain was threatening to turn into sleet and the wind howled in the chi them that Dece and co her uneasy

‘Hisher tongue against a sore tooth ‘Get close, I mean’

‘I very et inside those well-cut clothes, they can rumple his sheets—but lay bare the man underneath? No’

‘But’ But I get to the real man sometimes I can touch more than his skin She almost said it, then realised how pathetic it would sound I’m different He lets me in He trusts me And Hannah, who has known Alex for most of their lives, will sht even think I’

‘Why does he need a ?’