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Scarlet watched as he sat the ludicrously large teddy bear he was carrying in her chair behind the desk She looked at it It wasn’t the sort of item that you could miss, but her attention had been so focused on theuntil that moment

She doubted if she would have noticed if he had arrived accompanied by a full male voice choir!

His burden disposed of, Rolossy thatch of sleek dark hair The action, like everything he did, was rivetingly graceful

‘Is this about our telephone conversation yesterday?’ he asked

‘I don’t knohat you mean’

‘I seem to bother you’

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‘Or can you simply not bear to be in the same room as me?’

‘I don’t want to be rude, Mr O’Hagan, but I’m really in a hurry You were horrible,’ she admitted, despite her previous decision not to refer to the incident, ‘but no more than I expected from someone like you’

‘Ouch…! But beyond threatening to sue you, have I done so the lines above the bridge of his masterful nose

Other than undress ined for one moment that she had received any special treatment Ro woht tee shirts and no bra!

‘Of course not’ Even she was unconvinced by her tone ‘Now, if you could tell me what I can do to help you? But I really do need to crack on’

He ignored her interruption totally ‘I didn’t really see how I could have offended you given we’ve notto allow his eyes to traverse the slith of her body, ‘uise I must say I prefer this one’

She despised his slick patter and the fact it made her heartbeat accelerate

‘Oh, that’ She laughed uneasily, partly because his uninhibited scrutiny of her body was not so she was comfortable with She was even less comfortable with her body’s response to that scrutiny A shivery sensation slipped down her spine and she experienced apanic