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“How is it that a sure out cause and effect?”

“Cause and effect?” she repeated stupidly, blinking up at him

“No good can coain And you, even after what that man did, you still have stars in your eyes I kiss you because I can’t help it” A ragged growl punctured his words “I kiss you because everything about you drives o to bed or when I take ood it would be to ood it feels when you coht, a short, torrid affair at best You’re not offering that, are you?”

She shook her head automatically, and he snorted “I didn’t think so”

With one searing glance at heras if she’d been through an earthquake

An affair with Raphael—even one night with hi that hardness into her body, letting him see her at her most vulnerable… Heat flushed froered for what she kneould be unbearable pleasure

But it was her heart, dru even now, that she was afraid of

Frank had only chipped it Raphael, given a chance, would crush it

CHAPTER SEVEN

ANY DOUBTS PIA had about Raphael’s promise were proved unnecessary over the next feeeks Any ht have had in his endary will, shredded in the freezingly polite way he treated her

Forget kissing He didn’t even touch her unless it was for an audience Even then, he barely held her arers as if she would contaminate him Even his accusations had felt more personal than this