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‘I’ave her a payback sratulations, Aiesha You just got yourself engaged’

CHAPTER THREE

ENGAGED?

Aiesha hid her surprise at his countermove behind her trade, flashy dia with that?’

His sust as they took in the iht of her chin ‘You’re the last person on earth I would ever consider becoed to and you damn well know it You’re the one who set this up Now you can deal with the consequences We’ll stay engaged until the press loses interest I give it a couple of weeks, tops’

Aiesha folded her ar her breasts up so that a generous hint of her cleavage showed She enjoyed watching hiaze north of her neckline He was so starchy and uptight, but she knew that inside those crisply ironed trousers with their knife-sharp creases was a hot-bloodedto pay ? You should know by now I’ for freeeven forerers up in mock quotation marks ‘“family”’

His savage frown brought his brows together over his eyes ‘Have you no shame?’

She laughed at his schoolmasterish-stern expression because she kneould annoy hi hirave and so disciplined It aht to control his teh on his sharp aristocratic cheekbones and atugged by a surgical needle and thread beneath the skin

Yep He was furious with her all right He looked as if he wanted to shake her until her teeth fell out and rolled along the floor like marbles

But there was soer

Aiesha could feel the echo of it pulsing in her own body She becaenous zones as if his steely gaze had burned through the ice that kept each of them in a deep-freeze lockdown

Molten heat pooled between her thighs as she thought of those clenched hands relaxing enough to reach out and stroke her flesh, for one of those broad, ertips to brush across the pebble of each of her nipples, to tease the puckered skin until she gasped out loud with the pleasure

She glanced at his tight-lipped mouth She had alondered hoould feel to have thatlines and soften in passion, to ue to stab through the seam of her mouth to plunder hers