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He was in the reception room, and he was on his mobile She walked in, crossed to the cocktail cabinet which had been opened to show a lavish display, and poured herself a vere one

Then she turned, glass in hand

Her ex-husband had stopped talking

Slowly, very slowly, he slid the phone back into his jacket pocket Then he just stood and look

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CHAPTER SEVEN

THEO could feel his body react It would have been ih hi with his body’s animalistic response

One emotion was obvious, but the other—

The other was completely out of place He thrust it aside

Then, like the connoisseur of fine wo sensation free rein—along with his eyes

She earing eau-de-nil silk, clinging to her bodyher breasts and revealing their deep, exposed cleavage Her fair hair ept loose around one shoulder, falling seductively over one side of her face Her eyes were huge in her face, lashes sooted with mascara, deepened by shadow, and hercolour

She stood, weight on one leg, one hand loose, the other raising a glass to her lass again It was a calculated, provocative gesture

So, he thought, that was how she was going to play this, was it? The ain, and, as before, he thrust aside the irrelevant one

He knehat the wo ti other than the desire to do exactly what he was going to start tonight The dish he was going to consume cold, and so very, very enjoyably

He started to walk towards her