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Far froht her eyes into direct contact with Rory eyes Her lashes ca had nailed her to the spot

‘Then don’t act like one,’ he advised, his manner clipped and impatient ‘I don’t force myself on women’

Scarlet shook her head to clear the sensual fog that ht ‘Hell, no, you’re irresistible,’ she husked sarcastically ‘You don’t have to’ Well, not with me, he doesn’tp????e

TheOne kiss and she’d been his to do anything he wanted with She had never relinquished control that way in her life and if the h to terrify her, the fact that she had liked feeling that way, that part of her wanted to recapture the feeling, was!

His jaw tightened another notch in response to her sarcastic jibe ‘You can’t pretend that you were so participant’

Can and will, Scarlet thought, responding to his clai of her slender shoulders

‘That you didn’t want to kiss ritted teeth ‘That neither of us wanted it to stop You can’t pretend those things and expect me to treat you seriously, can you?’ By the time he had finished the incredulity in his voice had become scorn

She looked away froulped It had been pretty foolish of her to assume that a man who possessed his vast experience of women would not kno she had felt

‘Like you said, it was stupid’ It was clearly pointless to keep up the illusion that she hadn’t kissed him back

A speculative expression slid across his dark features ‘Possibly…’

She shot him a startled look ‘What do you mean, “possibly”?’ she de without it…’ Ro to the roots of her hair with mortification

‘Not without it leading to other things,’ he finished for her smoothly ‘I realise that’

Her chin lifted ‘It’s not that I couldn’t have stopped’ The question hen?

‘You just didn’t want to’ A faint, strangled sound was the only thing that could get past the emotional thickness in Scarlet’s throat ‘Neither did I,’ he added

Her eyes widened at his earthy admission