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Ies that Jaul had resisted for two years were suddenly leaping out of the box he had locked theht turquoise eyes that he knew could turn feverish with longing for hierness, nostrils flaring, dark eyes shiold beneath his lush black lashes

The atistered in dis off one restive foot to the other Shecold and then hot until otten sensation from the past But it was too late by then for her to draw back because Jaul was unexpectedly in front of her, close enough to touch and literally just grabbing her with two strong arhly provocative contact with his lean, powerfully hard body Air exploded into her lungs as she snatched in a startled breath

‘Chrissie’ Jaul husked, lean hands sliding down her slender spine to tilt her hips into an even

And as she recognised and felt his erection below their clothes, the long, thick evidence of his need hard against her belly, an ache of near pain stirred between her own legs Her head swaotten, knees suddenly as weak as bendy twigs He took her otten, fiery and urgent and wildly de She took fire fro bone-dry hay, and the piercing arrow of bittersweet hunger travelled to the very core of her being Her hands flew up to his broad shoulders and roved from the hard muscle there to the thick blue-black hair she had loved to bury her fingers in

His tongue plunged between her parted lips and a shudder racked her in his ar need loosed inside her to run amok like bush fire She wanted to rip his shirt off and run her hands down over his washboard abs She wanted to drag hi below their feet and satisfy the hollow ache screa at her feminine heart It was powerful, it was seductive and she could no er than she could have resisted his explosive passion She wanted, she wanted

CHAPTER FOUR

SOMEONE KNOCKED ON the door and Jaul froze, literally froze as if someone had hit an alarer gold and a ferocious frown on his lean, darkly handsome face

‘I’m sorry,’ he said flatly ‘That was a mistake’

Chrissie was unable to pull herself together quite so quickly and as he released her she pivoted away fro hands to press to her suddenly cla and shock and only die at the door Feeling shaky, she sat down on a horrendous carved wooden sofa without even a cushion to soften its hard, unyielding seat

Ato be told that! Only a kiss, only a stupid kiss, she was reasoning with herself in a daze of shame and denial But how could she have let that happen, particularly when she had visited him to discuss the infinitely more ih so all memory and rationality in the same uilty of inappropriate behaviour, she reminded herself in consolation Of course, she had once been accustomed to Jaul’s distinctly carnal can’t-keep-loried in her apparent power to attract hi that it h he hadn’t changed a bit

Jaul was receiving a lengthy al al firm chosen by Bandar and the lawyers ould apparently be arriving to represent Chrissie’s interests After her attitude to the divorce issue the night before he was disconcerted but less surprised by her unexpected visit Had she already thought better of her behaviour? Evidently she could ht Perhaps she had alsohim the divorce he wanted, he reasoned sardonically When had money come to mean so much to her?