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‘Sub-contract them’

‘No, I will not’

‘Sienna, you are stretching my patience!’

‘And you’re stretching ht?’

There was a ht—you of all people should know that’

‘Are you still on about those wretched photo graphs? Can’t you just let it go?’ She stared at him and then reached for the door ‘I won’t be insulted by you any more And I don’t have to be You’ve had your pound of flesh, Hashim—just be satisfied with that’

Suddenly he found hi that he could bite the words back ‘Sienna Don’t go’ He caught her arers ‘Please’

She closed her eyes, her inner tur that his plea was an unfamiliar one She had made her stand and de could change the effect he had always had on her, and still did Theway he made her feel inside whenever he touched her The way his very presence made her feel so alive If she took that out of the equation there would be nothing to consider, but it was far too powerful to disregard

She opened her eyes again ‘It’s not all about what you want, is it, Hashim? It’s about what I want, too’

He had been al to turn him down, and it was Hashia consideration to my proposal?’

‘Of course I am A woman would have to be pretty stupid not to, wouldn’t she? It isn’t every day that she is offered a chance to play the starring role in Cinderella!’

But, inexplicably, his triu sense of disappointive in, and he had been enjoying doing battle with her ‘So you will agree?’

‘Only if you agree to my terms’

‘Your tered

‘But of course Why should it all go your way?’

Because it always had done—all his life! ‘Name them,’ he snapped