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‘That’s not why I h I’d be curious to see how flip-flops ith your navy suits’

‘I did bring a beige one It’s my summer suit’

‘Oh, the levels of daring to which you’ve aspired You forget: you can get rid of the suits I’ve seen you in all your non-suited glory You can actually feel free to dress down a little nohen it comes to your work attire I ht have to resign ourselves to being holed up in this suite for the next couple of days’

‘What do you mean?’

‘You knohat I mean You can feel the chemistry between us I can’t keep my hands off you’

All her old principles rose to the surface but she fought thee? She wasn’t going to get cold feet now

‘But what about the client you wanted us to visit?’

‘He won’t be going anywhere At least not for a couple of days’

‘Is that the time limit you’ve set on thisersituation?’

The sexy warmth on his face evaporated just like that She could feel hihing up the pros of having good sex against the cons of what ht prove to be an aard situation

She hadn’t heard his warning speech about not getting wrapped up in hi hadsex with her?

‘I knohat you’re thinking,’ she said casually, lowering her eyes and trying to stanch the sudden pain twisting inside her

‘Really? You’re a mind reader?’

‘I’m not a mind-reader, but I’less relationships I’ve told you that I’ve never seen the point of one-night stands and sex just for the sake of sex So you’re probably scared stiff that we’ve slept together and now suddenly I’ll be trying to drag you down to the local jeweller’s to see what the rings there look like But you couldn’t be further from the truth’

‘No?’

‘No,’ Kate told his went down an unexpected roadbut that doesn’t change the fact that you’re you and I’m me For a start, I work for you You’re ’

‘Let’s get past the boss/employee situation’

‘It’s all right for you to say that’ Kate was suddenly angry at his complete self-assurance that he was entitled to do exactly what he wanted to do, without any repercussions whatsoever ‘You can turn round and sack me if you decide I’m some kind of liability’

‘And will you be? A liability?’ He hadn’t even thought of her as the sort to sell some tacky kiss-and-tell story to a newspaper—not that that would turn his world on its axis He couldn’t care less what people thought of hiold-digger, out to siphon offwith himwell, that was a horse of a different colour

And why hadn’t he thought of that possibility?

Because she’d struck hi?

But, no He could tell instantly from the look of distaste that crossed her face that he had insulted her

‘I had to ask,’ he said with cool detach with his arms behind his head

‘Of course you did’ Kate’s voice dripped sarcasm ‘It’s only natural after you’ve slept with a woman to ask her whether she’s about to phone a tabloid and spill the beans about sex with billionaire Alessandro Preda If you think that I hopped into bed with you because I fanciedyou for money—’

He turned to her and stared her down unsranted’

‘Then you hed ‘I shouldn’t have said that I’m sorry But I don’t kno to behave around you now that this has happened Every ti a little too frank I reot into thisthis mess’

‘Situations like this are only a et out of hand if one or the other becomes too involved’