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‘Upwardly mobile?’

‘What would you prefer, Alessandro? Ambitious to the point of ruthless?’

‘Better’

‘You really mean that, don’t you?’

‘There’s nothing wrong with a out Don’t tella Masters degree for the sheer hell of it?’

‘No, but at least you were et your Masters in the end?’

Alessandro’s face was taut with displeasure It had been a long time since anyone had dared be so outspoken with hirimly, he couldn’t think of anyone else who had ever dared be so outspoken with him—even before he had made his millions and attained his position of invincibility

‘Well?’ Megan recklessly flirted with danger, every pore of her being alive to his presence and the heady effect of those glittering dark eyes ‘Are you still in there? Don’t tell nificent brain of yours has suddenly decided to hibernate…’

There was a part of her that was veryup and down, but it was a very s of subjecting hi he had been so blasé about criticising hers

He’d hate to be thought a bore It had always been his most incisive put-down—the one word by which he would casually dismiss someone, out of his sphere In the past, any lecturer referred to by hi subjected to Alessandro’s verbal wordplay—and Alessandro had never lost even then, even as a young ue he considered a bore simply became invisible

‘You are getting out of your depth with this conversation, Megan,’ Alessandro gritted His eyes flickered to her, to the cup she was still holding ‘Maybe it’s time you called it a day’

‘I’ve had two cups of punch! I don’t think I’ll be keeling over any time soon’

‘Two cups toofrom your wild antics with the football coach who hts Is he?’ Alessandro gripped her arm and jerked her towards him