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‘And Bridget is?’

His eyes lifted to hers over the door of the fridge ‘Not the mother of my sixteen children,’ he said deadpan ‘She’s my housekeeper My elderly housekeeper’

‘Did I ask?’

‘You didn’t have to Your face is very expressive’

God, she hoped not because if it was he’d knowhe’d know

‘You look about as exhausted as I feel,’ he said softly

Carly stared at him and blinked So okay, he didn’t have a clue how ood thing

‘That bad,’ she said, gri

Dare chuckled ‘You’re still beautiful, Red You just look like you flew in an eht hundred hours ago—oh, wait You did’

Carly gave him a reluctant smile ‘So did you’ And yet he seeeous and powerful and so potently male

Not even fossicking around in a refrigerator could deter his appeal—if anything it made it worse Daniel had always put hi that his hands were too precious to risk injuring them And why did she feel the need to constantly co to happen between Dare and she

‘Do you want a shower?’

Carly nearly let out a low ht She would love a shower but just the thought of getting naked with Dare in the aparth to send her mind into a flap Then there was the se into Which ood,’ she said stoically

‘You sure?’ He set a dish on the counter top ‘I can lend you so of mine to wear if you don’t want to put those clothes back on’

‘Yours?’

‘I’d offer you so of my mother’s but she’s shorter than you and I had her suitcases delivered to Rothmeyer House last week’

‘I’m happy to sleep in my clothes’

‘Whatever you want’ His expression said she was ed and went back to the fridge ‘It’s just that I could have the’