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She glanced wildly at the door and wondered whether she could make a sprint for it

‘You’re not going anywhere, so you can forget eyeing the doorway like it’s the promised land, and I don’t need a few days to think about this I’ve already thought about it and come up with the only possible solution’

‘To marry you? That’s the only possible solution?’

‘What else?’

The sexy, teasing one In his place was this cold-eyed stranger, addressing her in a voice that could freeze water

‘I take full responsibility for the mess we’ve ended up in It’s the first ti precautions’

‘You should hear yourself!’

‘What are you talking about?’

‘The mess we’ve ended up inan explosion in your life’ Tears stung the back of her eyes ‘How can you be sosocallous?’

‘I’io flushed darkly and continued to stare at her

‘A few hours ago,’ she sla me in here so that you could make love to me’

‘You weren’t protesting’

‘I never said that I was!’ Her eyes flared and she held his stare with mutinous, stubborn persistence