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And okay, he found Cara Chatsfield attractive, but so what? He’d found women attractive before and never been controlled by his libido like that So she sht ear Really what she as a piece of fluff

And no e he wasn’t a man ould ever be interested in someone as fundamentally untrustworthy Even short term

Cara Chatsfield was too young, too wilful andto hiiven all that he knew of her reputation he also knew that he would still meet up with her later on Still take her to his bed For so word, but he couldn’t think of what the right one was to describe how he felt about her

Basically, he couldn’t take his eyes off her Like now She was talking to one of the bartenders across the rooly she had barely come close to the main table since their run-in out on the balcony And what a thing to call it He could have laughed He’d followed her out, co her into the wall and losing his head Nearly losing his head, he amended

He recalled the way Ellery had been holding her when he’d stepped through the terrace doors Cara’s brief look of relief She’d said they weren’t lovers and that she wasn’t interested in Ellery but why hadn’t she slapped the other man’s face? And why even think about that? Her response was her own business, not his The fact was, he wasn’t her keeper and she and Ellery weren’t lovers He didn’t need to know anything else about her to enjoy the promise of those feminine curves And nor did he want to Pleasure was all this was about

Abject pleasure

And anise a late supper for theether and then … then they’d have sex It would be great if that kiss was any indication and then … then he’d wake up toanised in Fiji and that would be the end of the delectable Miss Chatsfield

The back of his neck ached and he heard it crick as he eased his shoulders The bare They’d probably watched the sarams

Kids’ programs?

Hell of a way to win a poker game, Kelly, he admonished himself Real sharp

His eyes cut across the table to Ellery, as straightening one of the few re towers of chips he had left This hy Aidan was here This man Or ht a sour taste to hisfather that he would destroy Ellery, and Aidan always kept a promise The fact that his father hadn’t requested the proed he had been by Ellery’s deceit because, really, his father should have gone after the man himself for what he’d done to him Instead he’d bailed out on life