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His thoughts were pleasant company for the duration of the journey which flew past, because at such a late hour there was little traffic on the roads By the time he finally arrived at the house it was very late, but the outside light was on and there was a welco in his apartravel under the wheels of a car, and the soft murmur of a breeze that didn’t carry the sounds of aines
Letting hi still for a few seconds so that his eyes could adjust to the darkness, Leo quietly placed his coround and then silentlyon all the lights Heather and Daniel would both be asleep He ht have the kind of constitution that needed very little sleep, but he could appreciate that most people were not built like him, especially children
By any standards, hisThe first floor housed -room It had struck Leo, when he had looked over the floor plans froency, as very handy for an older person Histo trek upstairs to get to her bedroo absenth the half-open door when the blow to his shoulder blades caught hiained his control and swung round, fists clenched in anticipation of teaching whoever had hit hiet any time soon
He kneas Heather by her height; nothing else could be made out because the corridor was in corabbed her hand before the five-inch thick, hardback book could deliver another well-aimed blow
‘What the hell do you think you’re doing?’
Between swinging her hand and the bookcontact with the intruder—an encyclopaedia of the type now virtually extinct, thanks to the Internet, but still in plentiful supply in Katherine’s library—it had clicked in Heather’s head that the intruder in question was Leo
She hadn’t had ti accuracy between his shoulder blades, which he was now rubbing with one hand
She couldn’t make out the expression on his face, but she didn’t think he would be sently at her mistake
‘I’m sorry, but you shouldn’t be here!’
‘Why are you always so shocked when I show up in my own house?’
‘It’s not technically your house, and you told ht I…I heard a noise…’
‘I tried to be as quiet as possible!’
Heather could feel her heart beating like a dru about hih the oxygen was being sucked out of her body He was like an addiction, and when he was around every ounce of her felt alive She wondered whether he are that she was tre
‘That’s just it…I’, and I assular’
‘So you just rushed out here, armed hat is it? One of er rush through him as he contemplated the consequences of her stupidity, had he indeed been a burglar ‘A…let’s have a look now’ He relieved her of the book and pushed the light switch on the wall ‘Oh yes; an encyclopaedia of plants Just the thing you’d need to protect yourself and Daniel against soun Or a knife’
‘I’ too well in the thinking stakes now either Leo looked neither tired nor cru drive out of London In fact, he looked infuriatingly wide awake and every inch the staggeringly sexy alpha- that she was inappropriately clad in her dressing gohich she had hurriedly shoved over her shortie pyjahtly around her esture ofin her nipples or the dryness in her mouth She was crazily conscious of hisconcentration
‘Well, you damn well should have!’
‘Lower your voice! You’re going to wake Daniel!’
‘I’m not finished with you We can carry on this conversation downstairs’
‘I’et back to my bed’
‘Tough Follow onised indecision Heather grudgingly followed hihtly around her as if afraid that it ht fly open of its own volition and expose her swollen, tender breasts and stiff, aroused nipples Her thoughts were everywhere, but she knew that there was no way she would get any sleep that night if she didn’t pursue the conversation to its natural conclusion
Instead of heading to the kitchen, where she expected he ht want to make himself a cup of coffee, he peeled away towards one of the three sitting-rooround floor, and the only one which was actually used
‘You could have been killed,’ he told her abruptly,to switch on a la up position on the squashy, flowered sofa
‘You could have been killed on the way here,’ Heather immediately countered ‘You could have lost control of your car and wrapped yourself round a tree’
‘Impossible Sit Please’