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Ellie could only gape Whether it was from sheer shock or that co properly She should have scrambled under the covers, but she lay there in her blouse and panties and wondered what he would do next

She found out when he sat beside her and began to unbutton her blouse

Finally getting some semblance of wits about her, she twisted away and jumped off the bed “I think I’ll leave my blouse on In fact, I should probably put my slacks back on and rejoin Dad”

The look in his eyes said she was going to get undressed and in that bed, like it or not Too bad he was on the side by the closet and coincidentally, the door through which she wanted to escape Though not half-dressed as she was

She crossed her ar bossed around, Sandor”

He leaned back against the door, crossing his ar her a look she was fairly certain outdid hers in the inti my woman ready to collapse from exhaustion”

“I’m not your woman”

He crossed that s over her “We are at odds I accept this But youare mine”

“No,” she whispered the denial that felt like a lie

“Just as I am yours”

The words touched her deep inside where she did not want hiain to the denial her heart said she should not make

His hands curved around her shoulders and he stepped closer so their bodies were mere inches apart “So, you do not care if I bed another woman?”

Her heart screamed a denial, but she merely said, “Don’t be crude,” in her best approximation at a distant tone

“Do not lie to me,” he countered, his tone pure male censure

She sishing he wasn’t so close…or that his nearness did not i to bed with another woman”