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She kneas going to kiss her For a few seconds, all rational thought went into free fall as he dipped her head back, and then hisher back against the wall

As the walls of her resistance such as there had been caainst his, her body was as soft as he had iainst his chest, and with a groan he pushed his hands under the tee shirt, sliding the himself in their abundance

It was enough to galvanise Heather into horrified action In the space of a few reckless minutes, she had succumbed to a need that was so powerful it overwhelmed all her ability to think rationally

The touch of his hands on her breasts was like an urgent wake-up call and she pushed hiain her composure

She was no th stakes, but she had the ele Leo had expected was to find hiht of his excitement

‘Go Now’ She had aardly pulled the tee shirt back into some semblance of order, and her arms were folded protectively across her breasts On any other occasion, his look of disbelief would have had her laughing

‘Go? Now? If this is your version of playing hard to get, then it won’t work’

‘I’ you to leave I shouldn’t have…’

‘Led me on?’

‘I did not lead you on!’

‘Don’t play the outraged virgin with me I’ve seen the way you’ve stolen looks atdistance of you!’

Heather, guilty and appalled, stared at hie, but likewise refusing to ad you on, then you’ve got hold of the wrong end of the stick That’s the last thing I intended to do’

‘What was your intention, in that case?’

‘I…’

‘Because I don’t hear you denying that what I felt here was a case of mutual attraction’ Leo was half-stunned to hear hi to knohy she hadn’t immediately and without question fallen into bed with him He hadn’t been mistaken about the way she felt about him, the attraction that sizzled below the surface of their as like that When it ca female vibes, he could have written a book on the subject

What he was inexperienced at was having to deal with a woman who felt the attraction and then cah

‘Not all of us treat sex as a casual indulgence,’ Heather told hilehold of his powerful personality

‘You have no idea how I treat sex’

‘I can risk a guess—no strings, no co that hits the spot and then, when it stops hitting the spot, becomes disposable—like a Chinese takeaway, in other words You’re not domestic because you don’t have to be, and I’ll damn sure bet you’re never even reets nesting ideas Aht?’

‘And ood reason for that,’ Leo heard his about the joys of commitment Maybe I’ve learnt that it’s just not what it’s cracked up to be, and I’ht say at the speed of light’

He stared down at her and was as surprised at this ad from the wide-eyed look on her face It was one of the rare moments when mention of his wife had been uttered on his lips, the last ti when she had died in the car crash in Australia, thereby catapulting his life into another lane Even then, when the past had resurged into his present, he had conducted affairs with a businesslike approach, spurning all invitations from his mother to open up On that swift and relentless rise to the top, Leo had discarded all possible weaknesses, and that included any maudlin tendencies to confide Not that he had ever really had any The sensitive role had been his brother’s domain

Maybe it was the silence that greeted his unexpected aded hi to play the ain and he refused to allow himself to be boxed in