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‘You weren’t rough,’ she assured him huskily

His eyes pierced hers ‘I should have realised that you weren’t experienced’

‘Why should you?’

‘Because it’s a man’s job to take care of a woman in that situation’

‘I disagree This is the twenty-first century Women are emancipated, in case you didn’t realise’

A muscle ticked in his jaw ‘Erowled ‘But let’s just say it’s not the way I usually behave with a woman’

At the mention of his other women Ruby expelled a rushed breath This was information she didn’t want inside her head Ever ‘Look, can we just not discuss this any more?’ Surely there was a much more important and safer topic for them to discuss Or they could both just leave the room and pretend this conversation had never happened at all ‘Don’t you have a o to or a new client to woo?’

Ignoring her question, he came around the table until he was no more than two feet froht herself just in time

‘Why did you run away afterwards?’

Startled by his question, she aze ‘Sorry?’

‘It’s a simple question, Ruby I want to knohy you left before I returned with your water’ His bronzed throat worked as he sed ‘Did I scare you somehow?’

Being so close to him now, she couldn’t avoid the sensation of heat andfrom hiap between theain Or was that just her anted that to happen?

Jarred by the unexpected vision of hoould look naked, and desperate to close down this attraction any way she kne, Ruby shook her head ‘I was fine I just didn’t see the point in hanging around’ Not to mention that she’d been terrified at how easily he had made her feel so iven in to the attraction between them It had made her feel weak and powerless; two states she had often seen her mother fall into with the men in her life ‘Ifor a repeat performance, was it?’