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Absently he noticed that Ellery had crossed the roout tightened The ht and by the sound of Cara’s husky laugh she didn’t mind
So hell, why should he?
It wasn’t like she was soo to the opening of an envelope And for sure he had been wrong about the hint of vulnerability he’d noticed earlier Maybe he’d been seeing so he wanted to see in her
And why, he asked hi other than what she was?
A vacuous bimbo He let his eyes wander up her creareen eyes ringed with black kohl They had to be as fake as her hair Though as to the latter he would adamin hairdo made her look like an erotic pixie A very tall erotic pixie
Just then she leaned closer to Ellery to hear whatever dribble was co smile on her face as she led hi and transformed her from beautiful to the kind of woman men went to war over
And where the hell were they going now? Ellery’s suite? The break was only fifteen ot that chance
Annoyed with the direction of his thoughts, Aidan settledcrowd There were only tays to make it into this room Money or promise The men usually had the former, the women the latter It was the lay of the land But not usually his land Aidan usually worked, worked out and slept In that order Occasionally he dated and even more occasionally he joined members of his executive team for a drink But since the death of his father last year, he’d been driven by a deep, yearning restlessness A restlessness that he would finally put to bed after he crushed Martin Ellery and took everything that he held dear—his company and his self-worth
Frowning as his gaze lingered on the private doorway Ellery and Cara had disappeared through, he tried to tell himself that the Chatsfield socialite was not his problem That it was not his job to protect her if she was too stupid to see the man for what he was
Aidan had o never to become emotionally involved in any issue, and really, Cara Chatsfield did not see from anyone but herself
So did he care about whether or not the old man had his hands inside her dress? If he had hishis way down her creamy throat—