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Extreme sexual attraction, Sam had wanted to tell the other man
Ruby had rabbed it from the back of her chair and hadn’t looked back as she’d walked away She’d been cool to him the whole day, he remembered now, and he often wondered why that was
He also wondered what it was about her that made his libido override his iron-clad self-control where she was concerned, but he knew he’d work it out one day And, given their shared profession, and personal connections, it would probably be soon
His heart pounded slow and heavy inside his chest just at the thought of seeing her again He’d deliberately not asked Valentino about her over the past couple of years Why give his loved-up brother any indication that he had a thing for the beautiful lawyer? He’d onlySam wanted was to raise Miller’s awareness of how attractive he found her best friend
But their paths would surely cross and he was curious as to hoould feel about her when it happened Who knew, perhaps the incendiary attraction that sent his system into overdrive whenever she was in the room would have finally worn off? He’d lost interest in plenty of other women before Surely Ruby wouldn’t be any different in the end
He swirled the Scotch in his glass Did Ruby still reht they’d met? Did she still think about it? And did she still work for Clayton Smythe or had she moved on to new pastures? He’d left the firht to start his own practice in LA and had ruthlessly suppressed all interest in her, so he had no idea what she was up to now Some sixth sense warned him that, for all her bold confidence, Ruby was a soft touch deep down and therefore not to be trifled with Not that he planned to trifle with her on any level It would be pointless in the end and Sa his world-fa dreams to the exclusion of all else
Theirs had never been a close relationship, his father dying in a tragic racing accident before Sah God knew he’d wasted enough ti to win both He still remembered the time he’d trailed his father around the racetrack on his ninth birthday It had been a disaster waiting to happen He’d sat there all day, waiting to spend time with his father, only to have his old man drive off at the end of the day without him As usual his father had been so preoccupied ork he’d cootten Sairls had eventually noticed his, and called his father on the phone Sam had then been stuck in a taxi and delivered home alone
His mother had been furious with his father but Sam had brushed it off That had been the last time his father had kicked his pride to the kerb, Sam had made sure of it Not that it mattered now He’d learned a valuable lesson that day and he’d never hung hi so important that he couldn’t walk away from it at the end of the day
‘A good thing,’ heout his phone and switching his , to the present, where it did
He was due to arrive in Sydney around noon and head straight intointo some fancy-dress costume for a party he’d promised to attend
A fewand his wife—Australia’s darling couple of the theatre world—when sons off as their own Over the course of the case the Herzogs had become firm friends and they had invited hianza that just happened to coincide with Gregor’s fiftieth birthday celebration this year
‘Please coood friend It would be an honour to raise a toast to you on my birthday’
Sareement to attend but a promise was a promise and Sam’s as his law
Fortunately, he rarely suffered jet lag, but still, he hoped that Gregor and Marion wouldn’t mind if he only ations to fulfil the rest of the weekend, and a new co, he didn’t have a lot of tiorgeous blondes with long legs, heas Ruby Clarkson once again jumped into his head