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He too shot out of his chair “I’ for a mistress”
“Good, because I won’t be one Not ever I learned all I wanted to know about having uncouy so primitive he should be in ato have a ring on o with it!”
“Just who is this man?” he demanded in a near roar
“I don’t know, but when I find hi like you!”
“You think not?” Then he reached out and grabbed the lapels of his suit jacket again, yanking her to him “I think this mythical man will be just like me because he will be me No other man touches the mother of my child”
He’d said the words a breath above her lips and then closed the distance And the electric current of desire was there, waiting, lurking in her deepest subconscious to come to the fore with the first touch of his mouth to hers
She went under so fast, she didn’t even have time to despise herself for her weakness His mouth moved over hers with truly possessive passion and she responded like a woman deprived of physical intimacy for years
Her hands locked around his neck, her body stretched to press itself to his and her mouth opened in serious invitation He took it and deepened the kiss even as his hands caressed her back, pressing her closer to hi her feel his heat and his exciteht her to her senses and she shoved herself away from him so fast and so hard, she stumbled backward and fell flat on her bottom
He was on his knees beside in her in a second “You foolish wo to kill our son? Are you all right?” His hands were doing a hasty exae entirely from those impersonal touches
She slapped his hands away “Stop it I’m fine” Her bottom was sore, but she wasn’t about to tell hi to lose him from such a small fall” Oh Lord, please let that be true
“You would take such a risk?” He glared at her “What other risks have you taken with our child?”
If she’d had a gun, she would have shot him, or at least at hi look of censure off his face “It’s not my fault you acted like a lecher and kissed me What was I supposed to do, tolerate it?”
He swelled with affronted pride “You have never merely tolerated my kiss in your life”
She had no argu one “Married men are not supposed to kiss women other than their wives,” she said instead
He shrugged “I agree Does this worry you?”
Was he for real? Of course it worried her He was married to Phoebe and he’d just soul-kissed Alexandra “A helplessly bewildered
His rimace “I have been crazy since the first report fro to locate you They had not a single lead and you had disappeared in one of the largest cities in the world”
He tucked the suit coat around her slender shoulders once again, then leaned down and lifted her in his ar about io all basic? She could re their year together and that had been one night she’d had a little too ne and fallen asleep in the car on the way home
Yet, tonight, he’d picked her up like he owned her Twice “Please put n of how vulnerable she felt that she made it a request instead of a demand
Either way, he did not coht now”
She closed her eyes in frustration “I’ll control myself if you keep your hands and lips to yourself”
“I cannot promise this”
“Poor Phoebe Does she knohat an unfaithful letch she is married to?”
“Phoebe is married to a man of absolute honor,” he replied, his voice laced with furious affront
“You? Don’t rity did notanother
Di Alexandra pinned in his lap His blue gaze scorched into hers “You believe I am married to Phoebe? And you believe I have no honor?” The last was said with escalating anger
“I suppose you’re going to try to tell on”
“This is true I am not”
Alexandra closed her eyes She didn’t knohy, but she hadn’t expected hiain and stared into his deceitful face “She told et about the smoothy deceptions”
“She would not have told you she was my wife” His voice was filled with such conviction that Alexandra thought back to the devastating phone call
“She told me she was Mrs Petronides”
“But then she told you she was married to my brother”
“What?”
“She told you she had wed my brother”