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Dare Jaant for her liking Oh, he didn’t exactly have Daniel’s air of cultured superiority over others—so she hadn’t noticed until Daniel had well and truly humiliated her—no, Dare’s was more a latent power that drew the eye and let everyone around hie Which was just as bad

The T-shirt he wore did little to contain the bulge in his biceps and he looked as if he had the strength to rip a giant oak out of the ground and snap it in half Right now he looked as if he wanted to snap her in half

A shiver raced down her spine at theher hot and bothered She’d attributed her earlier physical response to the heat of the day and her worry over Gregoryher senses Now she knew that it was her feer with capital letters and she was listening This ti

‘More wine, Miss Evans?’

Carly regarded him warily as he picked up the wine bottle As tempted as she was to settle her sudden nervousness withany e with thisaround her frazzledto say ‘So, is this your first time at Rothmeyer House?’ she asked

‘You mean you don’t know?’

‘No,’ she said politely, herwhat she had heard about his family history ‘Should I?’

Dare watched her nibble on the corner of her lower lip and he almost felt sorry for her Then he re ‘I would have thought so’

‘I can’t iine why’

‘So sweet,’ heif her lips would feel as soft as they looked

She frowned ‘I can see that you’re very upset with your grandfather but do you really think that co to help the situation?’

‘Oh, good,’ he said ‘We finally get to the part of the evening where we give up pretending we have to be polite to each other’

Carly stared at hihed What did she expect? That he would welcorandfather’s innocent little mistress into his life with open arms? Not likely