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Cade Landon was the otistical male she’da lot

He’d humiliated her in front of her banker and her business associates, embarrassed her in front of her crew, made her look like a fool in front of the staff of the hospital—and why? Because she was female, and that made her a lesser creature

Her father had treated herprotective and loving, but Angelica could still remember how her mother had chafed and fuent woman would let herself be treated as if she were a well-trained, obedient dog

Men understood how to deal oelica’s lip curled Here, in Cade Landon’s world, they were too busy being ure out what a woman wanted

Well, she’d had it! She wasn’t up to a confrontation tonight but to to do what she should have done fro to stand up to Cade Landon and tell hiht to head up Gordon Oil or—or…

Or what? Or she’d see him in court? Landon Enterprises probably had a trillion lawyers on retainer They probably had another trillion dollars to spend disputing her claim

She had nobody on retainer, not even a cleaning service, as Cade had so generously pointed out And the last tihty-four cents in her checking account—

“Are you awake?”

Angelica looked at Cade His eyes were on the road

“Of course I’m awake,” she snapped “Why?”

He shot her a quick, huh the flight from Notrees”

“I pretended to sleep,” she said, tossing the hair fro forced to endure your company”

“You sure had ar If I’d known that, I wouldn’t have carried you to the truck”

Angelica flushed but said nothing Had he carried her to the truck? HeNow that she thought about it, she did remember the brush of his hand across her breasts as he unfastened her belt, the feel of his arms as they swept around her and lifted her…

“How do you feel?”

Awful Her hand hurt, and her arht about it, so did her head

“Fine,” she said coldly

“Maybe you ought to take another couple of pills”

“Maybe you ought to mind your business”

“That suits htly “In fact, it suitsfroht market on the corner up ahead”

Angelica bit down on her lip Of course, she needed things She hadn’t shopped in days, hadn’t even thought of it, to tell the truth, because she’d been so caught up in the disaster Cade Landon had brought down on her head

She opened her ed her mind, that she needed so while her hand healed, that she was out of tea and coffee and bread and that, given the way she felt right now, the odds of her getting out to shop on her own ranged from slim to nonexistent

On the other hand, it would be better to starve than ask Cade for help

“The only thing I need,” she said, “is to be in my own house and to see the last of you”

“My thoughts precisely,” Cade said, and pulled into her driveway

Angelica fumbled at her seat belt with her left hand

“Thank you for your help,” she said in a way that made the words a lie

“You’re welcome,” he said, his tone as sarcastic as hers Then he doused the headlights, turned off the engine and got out of the truck

“What are you doing?” she said as he came around to her door and opened it

“I’ you in”

“I don’t need anyone to see me in”

Cade tipped back his Colorado Rockies baseball cap “No?” he said pleasantly

“No,” she said, not so pleasantly

He laughed softly “The way it looks to ar, you need somebody just to see you out of this truck”

It was true, unfortunately It was one thing to open a seat belt one-handed, but now she was having trouble grasping the door fra too unsteady to risk si on to so

“What do you say, sugar? Shall I help you?”

Angelica glared at hih her teeth