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He drew in a deep, angry breath ‘Stop trying to force me to love you’

‘I’ the last part of the conversation he’d overheard would have sounded exactly like that

He stood taller, his glitteringly angry eyes fixing her to the spot ‘There will be no happy ever after here, Lisa, so stop looking for so that doesn’t exist’

‘Damn you, Max,’ Lisa hurled at hier ‘I already know there isn’t such a thing, at least not with you All I want is what is best for my child And maybe that is not you’

He moved from behind his desk and came so close she could sht hard not to let it unbalance her, to set off the sparks of desire ‘Then I suggest you leave’

‘Oh, I intend to’ She turned to walk away, anything to prevent the sting of tears froht her arm

‘But not until our deal is over, Lisa Not until ht on New Year’s Eve’

‘I’lared up at him

‘Angelina is expecting us at her twenty-first birthday party this evening and ill be there, Lisa—together’

CHAPTER TEN

MAX STOOD AND watched Angelina and her friends as they laughed, toasting his sister with chane Tall and slender, with sleek dark hair just like her elina looked exquisite in the creaive her as part of her gift The other part, a central London apartive hio, a place to call home

It was hard to believe his little sister was so grown up now and didn’t need him any more Now his child needed hi hi sex, he wasn’t at all sure his wife needed hio proved that