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He’d convinced hi it clear that if she wanted to hold on to her job, they must resume their roles of boss and eive her ti to happen again And when he’d returned she had coe expression on her face and had found hiht sexual jealousy had been the n—and in o He hadn’t wanted to be reht they’d shared He hadn’t wanted to have to fight off any inconvenient feelings of still wanting her
But the truth was that he’d missed her No secretary he’d employed before or since had been able to equal her They’d alorked well together—even if soard him sternly with those catlike eyes of hers He had allowed Erin Turner a cautious proxiuard had been granted And the irony of it was that he’d never even thought about her in a sexual way before that night To hiround—as reliable as the cup of strong coffee she placed on his desk each ’s headlines Sometimes he used to ask her opinion and, occasionally, act on it Was it a crazy adotten she was a woht when his spirit had been dark and desperate and she had been standing in his doorway in her sensible navy work suit He had looked at her and suddenly she had been all woman
He thought about her sleeping in the adjoining suite as dawn broke over the Jazratan desert in an explosion of colour—turning the sky an intense shade of rose pink before giving way to gold, then ahts were far away fro little boy he’d seen running along the London street and his heart clenched with an enise
He showered and shaved, but Erin still hadn’t risen when a servant rapped at the door and presented hi clothes Minutes later, he e room to see that sheShe was staring out at the gardens and she ashed gold withoutfits—the ones deemed suitable not to offend the country’s notoriously strict dress codes, but which soed to draw attention to the slender curves of her body She turned round when she heard hih her face looked bloodless and pale, he couldn’t miss the way her eyes darkened when she saw him
Infuriatingly, he felt his body’s oerful response to her presence but, ruthlessly, he clamped it down Because it was better this way In the cold, clear light ofit was easier to coht and to squash it Far better they kept things businesslike and impersonal
‘Ah, awake at last,’ he remarked non-committally ‘I trust you slept well?’
Erinof confusion She had anticipated that thisto be difficult in viehat had nearly happened last night, and would need careful handling She had planned to stick to neutrals—to concentrate on the banal and not give in to all the dark thoughts which were jostling for space inside her head She had intended to forget last night’s kiss and all the hungry feelings it had provoked, but the look on Dimitri’s face told her she needn’t have worried It seeain were co at her as dispassionately as he ht look at a speck of dust on his shirt
Yet the sight of hierous things to her heart rate Why was he dressed in a hich was so unbelievably provocative? The jodhpurs did things to his body which were only just this side of decent, clinging to every sinew of hishis hips like a second skin A billohite silk shirt was tucked into the waistband and hinted at the hard torso which lay beneath Dark leather knee-length boots co dry because suddenly he looked like every woman’s fantasy And she had turned him down
Was she insane?
She cleared her throat ‘Whatwhat are you doing?’
‘Isn’t it obvious?’ he said, with a touch of i with the Sheikh’