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Suddenly the ga turned deadly serious

The battle of wills she was so sure she could win shifted its power balance She felt it in the iain It provoked a visceral reaction inside her body, a lightning strike of lust that all but knocked her off her feet

She sent her tongue out over her lips to try and quell the fizzing sensation that was fast beco an ache His warm, faintly mint-scented breath skated over the surface of her lips as, centimetre by centian to close the distance Her own breath felt painfully restricted as she drew it into her lungs, as if the space inside her chest was already taken up by so her eyes, waiting, waiting, waiting for that first blissful moment of contact

Her eyes sprang open when she heard him take a step back from her His expression was as stiff and formal as the wallpaper on the wall behind him ‘I’ll deposit the al contract drawn up,’ he said

She arched a brow ‘The ter?’

‘If you speak out of turn to the press you’ll have to repay the amount in full plus twenty per cent interest’

Aiesha pushed her pursed lips from side to side ‘Twenty per cent seems a bit steep to me Let’s make it ten’

‘Fifteen’

‘Five, or I tell the press right here and noe’re having a tawdry little affair that will be over once this snow melts’

His jaorked for a reeht the deal fair or because he couldn’t wait to get away fro to the study to work for the rest of the evening’

Aiesha hitched one hip higher than the other in her best femme-fatale pose ‘All work and no play makes James a very dull boy’

His eyes held hers in a tight little lock that le ‘I kno to play I’ my playmates’

She curved her ht find it easy to resist her now but she wasn’t finished with hi him to his knees before the as out He would not be so straitlaced and sure of himself once she had him where she wanted him She could hardly wait

‘I bet Phoebe Frozen-Face doesn’t do it up against the kitchen bench or outside under the stars on a hot sweaty night I bet she’s a bed and ht?’