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He walked towards her and for ato carry on past her and through the door, but her optih the door he casually wrenched it frorasp It closed with a very decisive click
‘I’m sorry if I alarmed you’ He watched her rub her shoulder and the indentation between his brows deepened ‘Did I hurt you?’
She looked fro her so her ‘And that would bother you?’ She delivered a brittle laugh ‘Credit ence’ Even if I’ve shown precious little of it to date ‘You obviously get a kick out of bullying women And you’re not sorry, so don’t say you are,’ she hissed furiously
His eyes narrowed on her belligerent face ‘You round out grimly
‘Yes, I know you don’t like ine why you’d want to talk to me or what you’d want to say, and quite frankly I don’t want to know!’ she lied grandly as she opened the door again ‘Now, if you don’t mind, it’s late and I’m busy’
His even teeth flashed white in his dark face as a s whatsoever to do with huht…’
Scarlet froze, her body stiffening as if in anticipation of a blow
‘Curiosity killed the cat and you’re going to be wondering what I did it for,’ he warned ‘Admit it, you will’
Scarlet exhaled She was light-headed with relief and willing to ad For a split second she had jumped to the totally irrational conclusion that he possessed soiven her several nights of broken sleep recently
Dark, erotic dreams
Angie is always telling ht!
Was it possible that at some subconscious level she was as frustrated as her friend claimed? That could account for the dreaet him out of her head
‘I’ve told you, I’m busy,’ she repeated dismissively
‘Well, you can tell him to clear off’ His fine nostrils quivered in distaste ‘I will not be dismissed’
Heup a child, but even he knew that a single mother with a series of boyfriends hardly provided the sort of stable background a child needed—his child needed
She blinked, and tore her eyes fro spasmodically in the hollow of his lean cheek This conversation was like walking in halfway through a film after the vital scene when the hero’s motivations had been explainedp????e