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‘I have nothing else to tell you,’ she said carefully, unnerved by the sexual tension that suddenly permeated the air between them

‘I think you do’

The way he looked at her tangled her insides up and twisted her eht ball He was so attractive with his shirtsleeves rolled up and the top button of his shirt loosened, the curl of chest hair overlapping the button screa she already knew by heart

‘And I think it’s past time we addressed the elephant in the room, don’t you?’

‘Elephant?’ She had a sick feeling she knehere this was heading ‘There is no elephant’

‘Then why are you so keen to avoid et?’

Ruby hunted around for an explanation and hat was uppermost in her mind ‘If you ether’

‘Why not?’

Now, there was a question she had no intention of answering ‘The why, or why not, isn’t important’ She hated that she felt so flustered and defensive and that only made her feel more so ‘I respect you as a felloyer and as my boss, I just don’t respect’ Her eyes shot to his as she realised what she’d been about to say

‘You just don’t respect what, Ruby?’ His voice was predator-soft ‘You don’t respect ?’

Yes, it had been because how could she respect a man who had sex with random women whose names he didn’t even know? ‘I didn’t say that—you did But I don’t see any point in letting this get personal between us It will only s harder’

Sah ‘It’s a bit late for that, don’t you think, angel?’ The tone of his voice had all the hairs on the back of her neck standing on end ‘Things are about as personal as they can get between us, I’d say’

Ruby tried not to overreact to the word ‘angel’, fighting to re about hoanted to leave the , I—’