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‘Sorry,’ she apologised curtly, hating the ave her Did he think she had deliberately fallen against him?

‘No need to apologise,’ he drawled ‘This road is appalling I etanything now until the winter’s over The combination of salt and ice is lethal on freshly laid tarmac, but the Ferrari certainly isn’t built for this sort of terrain’

‘A city dweller, like its owner,’ Chelsea suggested sweetly

Slade brought the car to a halt in front of the house and she froze suddenly in her seat

‘Waiting for so?’

In the darkness her face flushed anger,her tre to imply that she had expected him to make love to her?

With false sweetness she said softly, ‘Forgive littered in her eyes as she added, ‘He always opens the door for me’

She alainst her seat with his body Neither of the the other, and she knew the taunt about Too unpunished It didn’t

Slade was looking at her in a way that was unmistakable even in the semi-darkness His left hand reached for the door handle, his ar open and his arainst her breasts She was shaking froed fro, but soine fire, and despite the cold perspiration broke out on her forehead On unsteady feet she headed for the kitchen, longing suddenly for a cold drink to steady her

She let the tap run and found a glass She was just filling it when she heard the door open She drank the ice cold water quickly

‘Going somewhere?’

Slade’s voice was almost as icy as the water had been, and Chelsea felt herself shiver She felt hiripped her shoulders, the hard touch of his fingers burning through her dress

‘Let go of me!’

His only response was the subtle alteration in his touch fro as his thumbs moved rhythmically over the tense athered up the fall of her hair, his thu sensually over the exposed vulnerability of her nape Rigid with anger, she breathed in sharply, clenching every ht just as well have not bothered Effectively imprisoned between his body and the kitchen units, she had no means of escape when his head lowered and his ing her out in goosebu kisses continued She felt his hand on her zip, his lips tracing the exposed line of her spine before returning to the smooth curve of the neck, and icy shivers alternated with a hot dryness that enveloped her skin Outrage warred with a heated upsurge of physical response, as Slade’s lips continued to nibble provocatively at her skin It took every ounce of willpower to resist the fierce tug of desire surging through her; to suppress the s to betray her as hisassault on her defences She closed her eyes to strengthen her resolve, but it was a fatal s to concentrate upon she was lost in a black velvety darkness which intensified a thousand tiently over her skin, seeer A Small sound of pleasure escaped her con he had been waiting for Slade turned her into his ar just enough pressure on her neck to fully expose the vulnerability of her throat to his mouth

Pleasure washed over in surging waves, and her head fell back against his shoulder as his lips plundered the pale flesh of her throat and shoulders,huskily with pleasure, her fingers entwined in the thick darkness of his hair, everything but the sensations he was arousing within her forgotten

His free hand covered the place where her heart thudded shallowly against her skin,upwards to stroke sensuously over her breast

A fierce heat engulfed her When he reached for her zip she made no attempt to stop him Suddenly Slade froze, and then cal on the kitchen light and reaching past her for the kettle

Chelsea’s senses reeled, and her own h she had been caught up in an alien force against which she had no defences Her body felt weak and she was tre

Da hiain! She opened her mouth to tell hi e is on her way down, and you wouldn’t want her to get the wrong idea, would you?’

Her eyes rounded with disbelief and then she heard the unmistakable sounds of the house-keeper’s ih her When she had been lost to everything but the feelings he had aroused he had been sufficiently detached to hear the housekeeperIt was men ere supposed to be so vulnerable to passion that they forgot everything else, wasn’t it?