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Apollo drew in a deep shuddering breath and said asback to the yacht and if that’s how you intend to behave when I take you out it’ll be a long tiain’
‘You can forget that option!’ Pixie railed at hiet out of the other side of the car only to be foiled by the automatic locks ‘Let me out!’
‘No,’ Apollo decreed, teain where she should be ‘You shouldn’t have let him touch you like that’
‘Are you for real?’ Pixie screa the!’
Apollo shot her a riveting green glance of near wonder with you?’
‘What’s right with me is that I’m not about to let you walk all overyou can do I can do too and I will I’ll throw h… I hate you, Apollo… I hate you!’
Apollo watched her stalk like a miniature warrior onto the et fro than he had ever appreciated, he conceded, still light-headed froe that had flooded him when he’d seen the Prince put his hands on her How dared he? He gritted his even white teeth while he fought the lingering pulses of fury
With a flourish intended to convey sarcasm, Pixie whipped off her shoes before she boarded the yacht ‘And we abandoned our guests on our night out,’ she re tone ‘Some hosts we make’
‘If you think Holly and Vito want to come back and find themselves in the middle of a marital spat, you’re rim-mouthed
CHAPTER EIGHT
PIXIE SLUNG HER shoes across their staterooesture of frustrated fury Apollo had acted like a total ass all evening and then so? Hoas that fair? Hoas she supposed to forgive hi ement!
The door clicked open and Pixie spun ‘I’ht’
Apollo si anyplace else’
‘You’ve got ten guest cabins What is the matter with you?’ Pixie exclaimed furiously ‘What do you want from me?’
Apollo surveyed her steadily, concealing his growing bewilderment at his own actions with difficulty He had lost his head and he didn’t ever do that
‘Are you going to answer me?’ Pixie asked impatiently, one hand planted on her hip while her foot tapped cheekily on the floor
He just wanted her So puzzle piece he had to have at any price The sex had been a It was the fireworks and the sex that attracted hi the weirdest effect on him Problem solved and sorted, he told himself stubbornly
‘Any tiht?’
Apollo unbuttoned his shirt for want of anything better to do A knock sounded on the door and he answered it Hector raced in, paused in horror at the sight of Apollo, gave hi below the bed Apollo locked the door again ‘You’re my wife,’ he told her finally, and as far as he was concerned at thathe needed to say
Pixie was perplexed by that response ‘But not a real wife…’
‘We’re legally nant How could it be any ht I felt married’
Her snation ‘Well, if that’s how you behave when you’re married, I wouldn’t like to have been around when you were still single’
‘I wasn’t expecting you to hit back,’ he ad abruptness, his beautiful wilful ed her even et a rise out of a guy as basic as me’
Her breasts swelled tely over the top of the corset as she breathed in very, very deeply ‘You think it was soet your attention back?’ she shouted at him in disbelief
‘It worked,’ Apollo pointed out drily ‘So, presumably it was deliberate?’
‘No, it freakin’ asn’t deliberate!’ Pixie launched at hi to scoop up a shoe and hurl it at him in furious rebuttal of that conviction ‘How dare you be so big-headed that you can think that?’
‘I’ll let it go this once,’ Apollo uy touch you like that again you’ll pay for it’
‘Threatening violence now?’ Pixie questioned, scooping the other shoe and holding it like a weapon
‘No, you’re rather more violent than I a stuff at me,’ Apollo pointed out deadpan
Pixie threw the second shoe but he was quick on his feet and she missed Hector started to whine below the bed
‘I can allow you to do a lot of things I haven’t allowed a woman to do before, koukla mou,’ Apollo intoned as he strode forward, ‘but I really can’t stand by and allow you to frighten that dog!’
Hauling her up into his arms, Apollo sat down on the bed ‘Settle down,’ he instructed, pinning an arot my full attention’
‘And now I don’t want it!’ Pixie yelled at him, so wound up with emotion she almost felt tearful over her inability to express herself