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“I’ll meet you in the lobby”

He strode out of the hotel rooain

CHAPTER SEVEN

JULIA TRIED TO shake the little shiver that see to her skin whenever Ferro was around It would be so convenient to blame the Alaskan chill, but it wasn’t really fair or accurate since she’d felt this way ever since their kiss on the balcony

She wrapped her shawl htly around her shoulders Red, which was unusual for her, paired withshoes and lipstick, and a fitted black dress, all provided by her stylist with explicit instructions Along with every other outfit she would wear this weekend

True horror had been discovering that her very helpful assistant, who did not know her affair with Ferro was fake because she couldn’t have anyone privy to that, had ensured that a different horrifically see-through negligee was provided for every night

This had proe about her being in the frozen tundra His response had been that skin-to-skin contact was the best way to reduce hypotheret that “delicious bastard” naked and snuggle up for safety

Her follow-up text had been unrepeatable in polite society

Ferro aiting for her at the bar in the hotel restaurant, a glass of whiskey in hand

“That ought to warm you up,” she said

His dark brows shot up “Who said I needed to be warmed up?”

“Earlier you said you didn’t like to be cold”

His lips curved into a half suess I did” He knocked back the rest of the whiskey, his face reet a table”

“Sure”

Ferro flagged down the hostess and she led them across the restaurant, decked out in the same rustic sophistication as the rest of the hotel They were seated in a corner at a table fashioned fro and polished so that it was smooth

“I really like it here,” she said when they were seated “It all kind of reine dwarves eating here Though, it would need to be more rustic and less polished But the idea, I mean”