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‘You can’t just march me out of here and bundle e’ She lifted her chin and looked at hi hio when he’d woken to find her in his bed

Why the hell had he given into lust then? Why hadn’t he been able to control the ard desire and walk away before things had got heated?

Because it was Lisa

‘So you’d rather discuss our ainst the backdrop of an office Christo of her ar away the te If she turned and walked away, left hi boy who’d watched his father leave, then he’d knoas all over He’d know that there was no point

Lisa didn’t htiness that was born out of the hurt he’d caused her when he’d told her their oing?’

‘My apartment’

He saw the shadow of doubt enter her eyes, obliterating the angry spark, then her delicate brows lifted gently ‘Your apartment? Can’t we talk here?’

‘In this freezing wind?’ He opened the passenger car door for her then stood back ‘We need to sort things out, Lisa’

‘Very well, but nothing is happening between us again’

Her insistence alh has happened already, don’t you?’

As she slipped into the low sports car he tried to eradicate the s wrapped around him Noas not the time to be carried away by lust, but he would have to be careful As he manoeuvred the car out of the car park and onto the road, joining the busy afternoon traffic, he ignored the fact that Lisa was the only woman who’d made such control impossible The only woman who had affected him like this

Lisa looked around the apartment she hadn’t been in for months, the memories of her foolhardy expectation of love and happy ever afters ale to be here, to be following Max across the polished wooden floor as if the last year hadn’t happened