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‘Sorry, but I had to stop,’ he said

She just stared at him, her heartbeat still haywire ‘You’re cruel,’ she said shakily

‘Sometimes you have to be cruel to be kind I didn’t have a condo control For so you does that to ertip over her still-burning mouth ‘I suspect you have some secret aphrodisiac in this red lipstick you alear’

She couldn’t speak, all her attention on that tantalising fingertip

His eyes darkened on her, aware no doubt of the extent of her desire

‘Coently

Alex guided her across a wide entrance hall and into a huge living roolass and white leather furniture which shouted s were thick, soft and inals, not the fraraced her own flat

‘This way,’ he said, leading her past a se table beautifully set for tith elegant silver place to be lit

‘That’s for dinner later,’ he told her, perhaps noting the direction of her eyes

‘It looks lovely’ She hadn’t expected anything so romantic

‘I’ve ordered a meal to be delivered at ten from a local restaurant And there’s two bottles of chilled white aiting for you in the fridge’

‘You’ve thought of everything,’ she said, taken aback by his thoughtful attention to detail

‘I try to please I would have been showered and properly attired if ot the better offor you to arrive, I realised I could kill two birds with one stone’

‘Sorry I’ you’

‘You will This way’