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“Looking at me like that,” she croaked

“It gives me pleasure to look at you”

She rolled her eyes, hoping that he couldn’t hear the thudding of her heart “I fell for that line six weeks ago Fool me once—”

His finger on her lips cut her off She tre a firestorown and the jewelry was the most pleasure I’ve had in six weeks”

He had picked the gown himself? Her heart, if possible, skipped a beat, his words falling over her like sparkly,her senses into a web of intoxicated desire How else could she explain the gooey mass in the center of her stomach?

“If you had worn it and accepted my invitation for dinner, I would have been even more pleased”

“Imemy pleasure, self-absorbed aze but her bitter words were the only things she had to fight hi toYou lockedI want”

“I wanted to make sure Farrah could take proper care of you What is bothering you?” he said, steel creeping into his words

“You’re kidding, right? Should I fall at your feet because you ifts at ainst you and now” She vibrated with anger and hurt, barely getting words out “You talk to h of you and thisplace”

“I would like to apologize for that I knew that you weren’t capable of sche like that”

“And you ca concrete proof from David and not a second before?”

His mouth hardened and Lauren realized she hated this version of hiht of Behraat, he became someone she didn’t know, someone she didn’t want to know “I needed that video, Lauren I have to be ruthless fro the ruler”

“More like the effect of being drunk on your oer”