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Her breath stuttered and she struggled to catch it, not realizing she’d been holding it Part of her would rather get thetired, but she was also wide-aith nervous anticipation

His nearness, the power of his intense glance, stole her voice His hair had flattened into a dark helrown in on his square jaw, accentuating everything aze should have been flashing a back off Instead she studied hiswith erotic control over hers Her fingertips itched to trace the sly masculine, yet wickedly sexy

“This stubble will burn if I kiss you the way you’re begging rowled voice that slammed her back to reality

“I—” She strangled on denial,aura and move across the room

“I’ll shower and shave You put on one of those cocktail dresses you asked s”

She threw hilare, but he disappeared down a hall What did she have to be angry about anyway? She’d sold herself into his control, hadn’t she?

Clair gripped her elbows, hanging on to her cos to turn her e was enors and attractively arranged furniture Everything was decidedlydesk set in the corner surrounded by enough space to accommodate its charismatic owner The rest of the flat took up the entire top floor of the building, incorporating half a dozen s space that one man couldn’t possibly need

She had thought Victor obscenely wealthy She shook her head, re herself that the real test of a person’s class came frouarded himself even more closely than she did She wondered what kind of ranite exterior One ould laugh her to the curb when he realized what a novice she was?

Stop it Steadying her knees and pulling her shoulders back, she resolved not to be intih all he wanted, but she had her own principles: loyalty, a debt of gratitude and a personal honor that demanded she live up to her word

She was terrified, but she’d sleep with him because she’d said she would

Her luggage was gone froed from his shower

It was an unexpected slap in the face for Aleksy Women never rejected him Given the math Clair had scratched into a notebook on the plane, he had considered their deal et out of it?

Snatching up hisonly a towel, he strode froe Down at the far end of the flat, as far as she could get froh it, noted her open suitcase on the bed and heard the hair dryer click on in the bathroom

The release of tension in hi

Get a grip, he ordered himself as he returned to his room She was only a woman, the same as all the others he’d taken into his bed Yes, there was a certain satisfaction in claih to hunt thata few more hours for this final conquest

The short flight to Paris had been unbearable, though, the drive fro to hold herself behind an invisible shell, while his senses had been hory to learn about his partner, but he hadn’t wanted to reveal his curiosity

He didn’t want to feel it She shouldn’t be drawing hily

When she’d turned that look of longing on hi in hi on her Whether it had been a tease or real, he had ached to accept her invitation like nothing he’d ever wanted, even his lifetie He’d controlled himself because any weakness for women had always been a distraction he couldn’t afford He wouldn’t let a habit of a lifeti in London when she’d thron her condition that the money had to clear