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He could see Tara standing behind the counter, slicing cheese andsandwiches He had o, and she hadn’t seemed to approve of him Maybe that hy he had been so surprised to receive her phone call She hadn’t been particularly friendly as she’d haltingly explained that Erin was getting ht why she was bothering to tell him, she had refused to be drawn further, but her attitude hadn’t bothered hi hie of them, or, in this case, of their beloved sister But the fact re he was ashamed of He had taken Erin to bed because she had been practically begging him to and because the cheht Who would ever have guessed that his unassu little secretary would have been so daiven him the best sex of his life?

But while her allure had surprised hiainst a repeat performance because he remembered the way she’dbeside hiaze had met his Because this was Erin Erin who knew him better than any other wohtclub or at a party, but the wo hours with He had felt naked in more ways than one as she had s unfamiliar had stabbed at his heart For the first and only tiet aith his usual sue He had broken the rule of a lifeti ith pleasure and he should have known better

But Tara’s news about her sister’s i had been underpinned with a note in her voice which had alerted his interest He began to wonder why she’d told hiions of his ex-lovers were going off and gettingdark and secretive in her tone So which had made him pick up the phone to speak with the security firm he had little need of these days

‘Just take a quiet look at a woman called Erin Turner and see what she’s up to,’ Diested to the head of the firm

He remembered the expressionless look on the man’s face when he had walked into his office a few days later with an envelope which contained a clutch of photos Photos of a child who looked just like him

Forcing thein the doorway of the café and watched his driver get out of the car to take her suitcase from her Dimitri watched as she approached and, inexplicably, his heart began to pound

She had re for the wedding and, without the elaborate pearl-studded wedding hairstyle, she looked more like the Erin of old Her faded jeans were unre a forgettable little waterproof jacket, with so brown hair was tied back in a ponytail, which bleildly in the strong autumn wind

His groin grew heavy with lust and Dimitri was irritated by his own reaction, because he didn’t understand it She was ordinary Soht have said that she made no effort to attract a h on her list of priorities, even when she’d occupied the prestigious position of being his secretary So why the sudden urge to crush her lips beneath his and to press himself down on that narrow-hipped body? Was it si a potent aphrodisiac—or was he reotten when she’d come alive in his arms?

The driver opened the door and she got in beside hiining her faint look of disappoint in the shadows

‘Hoping I ed my mind and left you alone?’ he questioned silkily

Clear green eyes met his ‘Yes,’ she said quietly ‘Actually, I was’

‘Sorry to disappoint you, htened ‘What tiet home?’

A look of anxiety crossed her face as she glanced down at her watch ‘Soon In fact, very soon We ought to get going’

Dinise washed over him with a fierce kind of power

‘No,’ he said ‘Not yet’

‘He ent ‘He mustn’t’