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Especially when she quivered at his touch Sheit disconcerted her, but she’d been sleeping with asexually excited was her stock in trade It made him sick, yet he still responded to it He wanted to crowd her into the wall and kindle her reaction until she was helpless to her own need and he could sate his

Disappointh his center He wanted her, but she’d already let his enemy have her

Aleksy Dly wiped his own on his tailored pants, as if her touch had soiled his palm

Clair jerked her hand into herher fist over the sensation of calluses and heat He was hot In every way All that y and muscle was a bombardment She didn’t want to react, especially to someone anted to fire her

She dragged at her cloak of indifference, the one she’d sewn together in a school full of spoiled rich kids “What gives you the right, Mr Dmitriev, to take away my job?”

“Your ‘job’ is dead” His curled lip told her what he thought her job was

“I’ under the president If you’ve taken ownership, I assu into that position?”

“On top of you? A predictable invitation, but I have no use for his leavings”

“Don’t be crass!” she snapped She never lost her temper Poise was part of her defense

He s to enjoy her flush of affront It intensified her anger

“I do real work,” she insisted “Not whatever you’re suggesting”

His broken eyebroent up They both knehat he was suggesting

“I e special projects—” She cut herself off at his snort, heart plu, suddenly worried about her own very special project The foundation was a feeeks fro properly launched After last week, she knew the building she’d grown up in was badly showing its age The home needed a reliable income more than ever And the people…

“Clair, are you okay? You’re s had said last week, catching her at the top of the stairs where she’d been painting They’d sat on the landing and Clair hadn’t been able to keep it all in Mrs Downings had put her arm around her, and for once Clair had allowed the fa the sense that so

She’d coet the foundation off the ground She had to keep people like Mrs Downings, with her understanding and co, empty hearts that she had