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CHAPTER TEN

ROSALIE STILLED His words echoed, lifting her fro with his kiss

Confusion filled her ‘II don’t understand’ The words fell fro up the whirlpool of confusion inside her

How could this be happening—how?

Xandros’s brow furrowed as he drew back from her a little ‘Don’t understand what?’

Then his brow cleared, a s to play about his ht those deep flecks of gold in his eyes that soain

‘Isn’t it very simple?’ he asked

‘But’ She sed ‘You said it was a ht That kiss At my room in the hotel—’

He stared down at her Then a wry, rueful laugh broke from him ‘Do you have any idea how hard it was for ht?’ he asked, and she could hear the husk beneath the rueful tone ‘That hy kissing you was a mistake!’

He took a ragged breath

‘Do you have any idea how hard it has been to keepat the hotelat least ere in public—but when you came to my apartment, looked into my bedroom at my bed’

Greek words broke frolish

‘I’ve been in tor to have you here all to myself’

She gazed up at hi in the iht, lifting her up and up and up

‘But now Ah, now’ he went on, and his voice was husky again, with a sensual twist to it that set in motion inside her a vibration that seeht Now,’ he said, ‘the time is perfect’