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‘I’ about that’ He disly direct ‘I’ht’

He waited a beat but Ruby found her tongue frozen to the roof of her mouth

‘Last Friday night, to be exact’ When she reave her a sardonic sood looks ‘You know You and oing to tell me it wasn’t you in the lavender silk dress and black lace mask?’

Oh, God, she had been wrong

He knew He knew! The words reverberated inside her head, a stinging heat singing along her cheekbones as if she were being pricked by a thousand tiny hot needles

Their gazes clashed and held and Ruby couldn’t look away froeous brown eyes to save herself

‘I can see you’re still going to try and deny it,’ he said, the savage note in his voice letting her know that he was far fro, to say the least’

‘I’ to deny it,’ she said with asperity, ed hiht

‘Well, that’s a start,’ he grated, his gaze penetrating every one of her natural defences in a way no man ever had before

What was it about Sam that made him so lethally attractive to her? It just wasn’t fair

‘A start to what?’ she asked, recognising for the first time that he was truly annoyed, but at a loss as to knohy he would be She hadn’t de from him, or called his phone off the hook like a love-struck fool Shouldn’t he be rejoicing about that instead of scowling at her?

‘To you being honest I did wonder if you were going to try and blame the alcohol Maybe claim that you’d had soThat you didn’t knoho you were doing it with’

If only I could! But what did he want her to say? That she found him so completely and utterly irresistible that she hadn’t been able to stop? That she had wondered what it would be like to be inti that when it finally happened she hadn’t wanted to stop? ‘I knehat I was doing’ She lifted her chin, deteruess how deeply she was affected by the intimacies they had shared—or how much she had enjoyed it ‘And I’m not ashamed of what happened’