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Then she closed her suitcases and dialled down to reception
If she hadn’t been so sleep deprived and preoccupied with her probleht have been ed towards her as soon as she stepped outside of the hotel
But she wasn’t prepared at all and before she had tilass wall and her cap and sunglasses knocked to the ground Quickly bending to retrieve the lenses of the cameras
Wedging her glasses back into place she stood up and tried not to appear as if she was cowering But she was and the barrage of reporters had her perfectly trapped as they pitched questions excitedly at her head
As a general rule Aidan was an early riser It was a habit he’d established the day he’d taken over his father’s business
He usually started the day with a session in his gym, or a run around the Sydney Botanical Gardens near his home Then he’d return, have a shot of espresso his housekeeper would have prepared and take his chauffeur-driven car to work
In the old days, in the beginning, he’d have driven himself to work His first car had been a late-ly as they came and he’d hated it He used to dreaine red Why go for the discreet black or sun-flower-yellow At the tiht and bold Out there
So that Ferrari Why own a car you didn’t have time to drive?
He frowned The Merc made more sense He could make phone calls in it, work on his co if he was in a rush Hell, he’d even had sex in his liht when he’d been pushed for tied
He remembered now that he hadn’t enjoyed the experience that ht
And what the hell was Cara Chatsfield doing in his head again?
His frown turned into a scowl She was like a sore that wouldn’t heal A painful one He never should have touched her How many times had he told himself that already? How many times had he told himself that one taste of her honeyed charh?
Last night he’d been so tied up in his need for revenge that he’d become almost paranoid He hadn’t been able to see as real and he still wasn’t sure he knew All last night had revealed was that the issues of his past hadn’t felt lifted when he’d beaten Ellery and he’d taken that out on Cara