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She sed hard beforeadded to your list of conquests,’ she told hiustedly

Luc didn’t move, his eyes, his dark, expressive eyes, still hidden beneath his upraised arm ‘No?’ he breathed harshly

Darci could hear the heavy rise and fall of his chest, and shethe friction of her T-shirt against her nipples, which were still hard with recent arousal

‘No,’ she assured him, with more firmness than conviction—she had wanted hiotten who and what he was! ‘So you may as well call off the hunt as far as I’m concerned’

Luc raised his arm to look up at her with narrowed eyes ‘Is that how you feel?’ His mouth twisted ‘Hunted?’

She wasn’t sure how she felt! Luc brought out a hunger in her, a yearning, aching need that she had never known before She had no experience to deal with it

This was Luc Gaet past her defences, thebecause of Mellie, because she’d wanted to let him know that not every woman was susceptible to his lethal charm

So much for that claim!

Her face fell ‘I can assure you that I’ in love with you!’ she told hily

‘That’s good—because love doesn’t enter into ly

Oh, she knew that She was only too well aware of what his intentions were after the way he had behaved with Mellie The way he would behave with her, too, if she let hi him every opportunity to do that…

‘I meant with a man like you,’ Darci came back tartly

His lacial ‘I’m not sure I like your implication,’ he rasped

‘Oh, co in love with you would simply be stupid!’

Love had never entered into any of his plans, Luc ad the e that damned Gambrelli Curse

But no woatory way before Darci see exactly that several times in the last few days

He turned on his side, knowing by the way Darci stiffened and htly away from him that she wasn’t as immune to his close proximity as she claimed to be