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“You’re not contemptible, Cade,” she said, “you’re despicable”
She pulled away froo, watching her as she made her way down the his breath until she reached the front door Then he exhaled sharply and loped down the steps after her
CHAPTER EIGHT
HIS suite, Cade had said, was spacious
One look told Angelica that “spacious” was far too simple a word to describe his accommodations
He unlocked the door, and she stepped past hi room that seelass
The rooant, depending on pale woods, paler leathers and linear design for ihtened the soft white walls; the white marble floor was bare, except for one extraordinarily beautiful, handwoven rya rug
Cade shut the door behind him, dropped the keys into a terra-cotta bowl and turned to her
“My bedrooh that door on the left” He shtly “They’re the same, except for the views If you prefer mine, say so We can swap”
Change rooms? Sleep in the room that was Cade’s? In his bed? For soht made her breathless, but she only smiled coolly
“Such gallantry, Cade Who’d have expected it?”
“Not you,” he said with a little laugh, “we both know that” He walked to the s and drew open the curtains “To better—”
“I feel perfectly fine”
“To to wear”
“What does that iven me time to pack—”
“Right” He sh suits to stock a depart—”
But nothing soft that would cling to her soft curves, that would be the right color to bring out the emerald of her eyes or the fire in her hair
Damn! Where had that bit of nonsense come from? Cade scowled and put his hands on his hips
“I thought Iaround like a fool, waiting for you to try to get yourself ready for work in the s”
“And I’ve no intention of wasting s I don’t need!”
“You don’t have to I’ll pay for whatever you need”
“That’s out of the question I a to permit you to—”
“Dah horse! You were injured on the job, re is necessary for your rehabilitation, your eated to pay all necessary expenses—and Landon’s is your employer, isn’t it?”
God, he thought, he sounded like a fool What in hell was the matter with him?
“Look,” he said, “I’ll check with al people, if that will ree, Cade thought, he’d see to that He sank down into one of a pair of lohite leather couches that flanked a teakwood coffee table, linked his hands behind his head and sighed wearily “In the meantime, spare me the speeches I’m not up to a feminist lecture just now”
“Anything I say that you don’t agree with is not a—”
“Let’s try a neutral subject What do you think of your new accommodations? Do they satisfy you?”
“My own home satisfied me”
“It’s a silared at her “Will you be comfortable here?”
“Why? Does ed her shoulders “If you’re waiting for otten your way I’s”
Cade opened his hed, leaned his head back again and shut his eyes
“You know soue”
Angelica’s gaze swept over hiue? It hardly seeht suddenly The trip froht hundred h her ordeal with the scorpion, and topped things off by spending the night in a chair that wouldn’t have been comfortable for a man half his size
She felt a twinge of guilt In his oay, he’d tried to be kind to her It wasn’t his fault that he thought kindnessover a person’s life
“Cade?” Angelica cleared her throat “I suppose—I suppose I should thank you for all you’ve done”
“You already did You choked out a thank-you that alo, reain and I’’s affected your sanity”
Her lips compressed, but after a minute she saw his lips twitch She smiled