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Jaive her a sardonic look ‘Running away from another scandal, are we?’

Her lips tightened, her eyes burning with the dislike she had always assaulted him with ‘Don’t pretend you don’t know It’s been in every paper and newsfeed’

Was there anyone who didn’t know? The news of her affair with a one viral Janored it, or tried to But then some unscrupulous newshound had unearthed Aiesha’s role in the break-up of his parents’ e It had only been a sentence or two and not every paper or newsfeed ran with it, but the sha to put behind hieance

But what else could he expect? Aiesha was a wild child who attracted scandal and had been froht her hoe runaway She was a sative drama, even for the people who tried to help her His mother had been badly let down by Aiesha’s disreputable behaviour in the past, which hy he was puzzled that she had allowed her to come and stay now Why would his irl who had stolen not only heirloom jewellery from her, but tried to steal her husband from her, as well?

Ja it in the cupboard in the hall ‘Married men are a particular obsession of yours, are they not?’

He felt the stab of those grey eyes drilling between his shoulder blades He felt the sudden kick of his pulse He got a thrill out of seeing her rattled by him He was the only person she couldn’t hide her true colours fro to serve her interests, laying on the char the ga yet another heart and wallet

But he was iht froot rid of her East End accent and chain-store clothes, but underneath she was a pickpocket whose aim in life was to sleep her way to the top Her latest victie were unravelling as a result The press had captured a daas hotel where she worked as a lounge singer

‘No one must know I’m here,’ she said ‘Do you understand? No one’

Ja the sleeves of his coat to face her She was still looking at hiaze, a flicker of uncertainty, or was it fear? She quickly disguised it, however She jutted her chin and flattened those delectably full lips Her mouth had always fascinated him Ripe and soft and full, ainnocent about her e of sinuous catlike curves that could wrap around a led by his need of her

And she knew it

Ja roo about that mouth was a bad move He could practically feel those plu on him until he eak at the knees He suppressed a shudder of traitorous desire He would not think about that mouth He would not think about that body He would not think of the lust that burned inside him

‘No one will find you here because you’re not staying’

She followed hi over the Persian carpet like the paws of a light-footed lioness ‘You can’t throw me out This is your mother’s house, not yours’ She stood with her ar exactly like she had a decade ago, all pouty, sulky teenager even though she was noenty-five years old

He let his gaze run over her in a leisurely sweep as if inspecting a cheap and tawdry iteet out’

She slitted her eyes like a wildcat staring doolf ‘I’’

Jah his veins It thickened in his groin, reigniting the euished He hated himself for it He saw it as a weakness It reduced him to the baseness of a wild ani female was available

He wasn’t cut from the same low-quality cloth as his father He could control his impulses Aiesha had tried her seduction routine on hio but he hadn’t taken the bait

And he wasn’t going to take it now

‘I’uest,’ he said