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‘No reason’ He forced a lazy s hours Even weekends I wouldn’t want you to burn yourself out’

‘Oh’ She glanced over his shoulder at the door as if she wanted it to openburnout Thank you for asking’

She rubbed the outer edges of her left eye as if to control a twitch Saht She knew he had been the s’ party, the hly, so intiht immediately afterwards so she didn’t fall over He was dead sure of it now And damn, if that didn’t ease the choke hold she had on his unaccountably fragile ego

‘My pleasure,’ he purred, buttoning his jacket and willing to back off now ‘Set up that er clients And Ruby?’ He stopped at her door and smiled at the wary expression on her face ‘Thank you for your ti’

CHAPTER FOUR

RUBY SAGGED IN her seat the moment Sam closed her office door behind him

Good lord, she was never going to be able to ith hierous to her equilibriu all the air out of the room until she could barely breathe

The way he had looked at her, all hot and intenseit was all she could do to hold herself aloof And when he had asked about last Friday nighther eyes narrowed as she recalled his bland expression She’d al with her, but he was a master when it came to inscrutability

Even so, there was no way he could know that he’d been with her at the Herzog party No one had known her there, as far as she are The only way he would knoas her was if she told him Which she wasn’t about to do Ever

‘Here are so in two cardboard flat-packs she i on Ruby’s desk ‘I know you have a lot to do today so I’ll take care of the packing up Just remember tomorrohen you finish in court to head to the new office building With the amount of manpower Sam has provided we’ll definitely be in by then And we’re on the executive floor’ She waggled her brows ‘I’et us a view of the harbour Hoas yourwith His Hotness before? He looked a lot happier when he left than when he was standing around waiting for you’

‘His Hotness?’

‘That’s what a few of the girls have already nickna lips with hiive me’