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‘The wo me at the weekend You’ll be decidedly de trop’

She laughed out loud, even going so far as to bend over double to hold her sides as if he’d told her the most humorous of jokes ‘You mean to say you’ve actually asked that stuck-up frozen-faced heiress who doesn’t do anything but spend Daddy’s h Street to marry you?’

Jaht he’d have to take his h a straw for the rest of his life ‘Phoebe’s the patron of several well-known charities’

Aiesha was still giggling like a naughty schoolgirl ItHow like her to mock the most important decision of his life He had chosen his future bride after lengthy consideration Phoebe Trentonfield had her ownfactor It had plagued hi to find a partner anted him for himself instead of his money It was the first box he wanted ticked He was thirty-three years old He wanted to settle down He wanted to build a stable hoht he had until his father’s affairs had coht He wanted his randchildren He wanted someone as content to be a traditional wife so he could rebuild the Challender empire his father had so recklessly frittered away He wanted stability and predictability instead of scandal and chaos His father was the impulsive one Not him He knehat he wanted and was deteret it and keep it

Aiesha gave hi to say when she finds out you’re here with me?’

His oing to find out because you’re leaving first thing in the ’

She hitched one of her hips in aaround the corners of herold ht, then?’

He wanted to bury her in the snow, at least ten feet deep so he wouldn’t be teht about her curvy little toosh the better Hoas he going to get her out of here? He could hardly send her packing at this tiht, with the roads so slippery and treacherous He had only just e had a bed and breakfast but it was currently closed for the winter The closest hotel was a half hour drive awayan hour in these conditions ‘Does your car have snow chains?’ he asked

‘I didn’t bring a car Your h’

What was hiscrazier by the minute He hadn’t known his mother had been in contact with Aiesha over the years What was she thinking bringing the daughter of the devil back into her life?

Was this a set-up? A practical joke?

Surely not How on earth could it be? HisSurely she kne dangerous it would be to put Aiesha in the sa time bomb She courted trouble She craved attention froet them out of them as fast as she could She was ruthless and shaht, well, I’ll drive you back to the airport first thing in the -and house-sitter is over’

She sashayed over to hi one of the whitened tendons on the back of one of his clenched fists ‘Loosen up, Ja If you need an outlet for all that pressure—’ she batted her i eyelashes at him ‘—just call me, OK?’

James forced himself to endure the electric shock of her touch without flinching He forced hiue had left a ainst the nearest wall and slake the fireball of his lust by plunging into her hot, ar what he’d alanted to do to her Every cell in his body was vibrating with need, and what sickened hi hell out of ht’

Her eyes glinted with devilave an exaggerated little shiver that le beneath her sweater ‘It makes me come in a flash’