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“I don’t have to,” he said on a snort, shoulders pinned back in a hard flex “You just proved you want to” He paused to let her absorb what she couldn’t deny

An awful telltale heat suffused her, e of the mattress It was true, she wasn’t i past the invisible shield that usually protected her and branding hiainst her core

“So what if I do? My instincts are warning aze and trying to listen to those instincts even as everything in her reached longingly toward hi this unfaer when he looked at her as if he wanted to flatten her onto the bed and finish what he’d started Her breath stuttered and her nipples contracted to tight, painful points All of her feltthe distance

So flashed in his eyes Frustration maybe, but it had a flicker of desperation that quickly dissolved into triumph “And of course there’s your reputation Wouldn’t you like to preserve that?”

She frowned “Sleeping with you would ruin it!” Her voice caed with anticipation She was struggling for logic, but all she could wonder was, hoould it feel to have him on top of her? Inside her? An earthy part of her desperately wanted to know No one had ever s weren’t e Her lips were still burning, aching for the return of his

She didn’t even know him

But she wanted to From the second he’d stepped off the elevator, she’d been wondering who he was Her online search had turned up dry details about his business interests, nothing about his background Where had he coest country in the world? Why had he singled her out? Why did she react to him like this?

“You read theflatness “A full investigation has been launched at the firal activities will be terminated I expect more than a few rats to jump ship before they’re fired”

It took a moment for his statement to penetrate She knew she wasn’t a rat, so she hadn’t been frightened Until now “I didn’t knohat he was up to,” she re falsely accused “You don’t think people will say I was fired because— I would never take what I didn’t earn!”

“Says the woman who just accepted a hundred thousand pounds for a charity that doesn’t exist”

“I didn’t ask for that!” She scra on my part”

“Nevertheless, you’ve been sacked People will draw their own conclusions So you’re comfortable with, I believe?”

“That was different! And if I slept with you after seeer in the world Her heart plummeted

“Better to be called what you are than presuainst cheaters and thieves I wouldn’t have one inwith hten speculation I don’t think you’d find another patron after that Not one able to keep you in the style to which you’ve grown accustomed”

She wouldn’t find a job frying chips with ru her “You could clear my name! You only have to speak up”

“Make it worthto hide his superior enjoy her exactly where he wanted her He really was conscienceless

“Why are you backing me into a corner like this?”

“Why are you fighting me when you know you’ll enjoy it?”

“You won’t,” she blurted, shoulders hunching Her appalling lack of experience would bore him out of his skull before the first act was over

Triumph flashed in his eyes and a satisfied srin “I have no proble what I like, and you seeether,” he assured her