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It wasn’t until she encountered his broodingly black and icy colde with so a total idiot, she unpeeled herself frorimace and a murmur of, ‘Sorry’

She tucked her hands behind her back and resisted the self-indulgent impulse to s that the i to do with spontaneity and a hell of a lot to do with sexual curiosity It was deeply e she had enjoyed the contact with a very well-developed male physique

She felt she had to offer soe behaviour

‘I know he’s perfectly safe with the Bradleys, but when I saw you I thought the worst…’ She released a sathered that much’

Her brorinkled as an inconsistency she had been too panic stricken to notice earlier struck her

‘Why didn’t you say straight off that you didn’t know the Bradleys?’

It wasn’t as if he could have missed the fact she had been two steps away from hysteria

‘I wanted to talk to you and I wasn’t sure you’d let me in’

Scarlet stared at hiy in his manner His behaviour was so extraordinary that it took her a while to get her head around what he had done ‘You wanted to coerously flat tone as her temper fizzed dramatically into life ‘You wanted to come in’

Only someone totally callous could act with such calculated cruelty

‘I need to talk to you’

‘Oh, that ht, then!’ she said contemptuously

His classically pure jawline tautened as a dark line appeared across his cheekbones ‘Will you calm yourself, woman?’

‘I’m not a woman…well, not your woman, anyhow, and for that,’ she added with incoherent fervour, ‘I shall be eternally grateful Nothing ht for you to scareto do!’