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A scowl darkened his face ‘Were you ever going to mention it?’

‘No,’ she answered after a brief pause, her heart pounding like a jackhammer behind her breastbone

‘You had an itch and I scratched it’ His lips twisted into a cool smile ‘Is that it?’

Taken aback by the force of that comment, Ruby scowled ‘There’s no need to sound so crass’ Was that the way it had been for hiht, iret he’d made before he’d set her on her feet ‘But yes, I suppose you could put it that way What’s your excuse? Or don’t you need one? You’re a oes?’

Dead silence followed her accusation and when he spoke his voice was gri than you did Which is not my recollection of events’

E burned a hot trail down her throat ‘Oh, co? Let’s at least call it what it was’

‘By all hten me’

Ruby gripped her laptop tighter ‘It was sex Great sex, by the way Ten out of ten to you, but it was still just sex’

‘It was nowhere near ten out of ten,’ he corrected her

Well, sorry Hurt cut across raw nerves as if he’d just lashed her with a whip

His dark eyes held hers as if he knew exactly where her mind had taken her ‘Ten out of ten would have ether’

‘Oh’

Well, then

Not sure where to look, she watched him covetously as he moved to theand stared outside Without his eyes on her, Ruby breathed a littleback to face her

‘There’s so I want to know’

Ruby held her breath at the serious note in his voice ‘What?’