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‘That was different’

‘How?’

Her tongue darted out to lick crimson lips ‘It just was’

‘Maybe you need a drink’ He snapped his fingers and a waiter calasses’

‘Very good, sir’

His narrowed gaze continued to survey the roo her to soften ‘Is it so very difficult,’ he murmured, ‘for you to appear as if you enjoy ht’

‘I wonder,’ she breathed, ‘how long you’re going to keep re me of that’

‘As long as it takes for you to begin to relax’

‘Reet ly’

‘Perhaps I’ll remind you in a different way, then,’ Cristiano answered, and he turned her around to face hiazed at hi every eye in the rooertip, felt Laurel’s shuddering breath and smiled

CHAPTER NINE

LAUREL FELT CRISTIANO’S finger on her mouth and, despite her desperate deter off in her body His other hand reers splayed over her hip, and she washer than she’d been of anything in her life

She couldn’t keep fro her head back as he traced the outline of her lips, a ly sensual Distantly she heard the ripple ofon a faraway shore