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‘No ice cream for me, thank you’ Don Xavier put up his hand as if to ward off the scoop of ice crea him

Her sto with apprehension, but she’d started so she’d finish ‘I’m afraid I must insist’

‘You ht she’d gone mad

‘I don’t have any chane to toast your aunt,’ Rosie explained, ‘and as Doña Anna loved ice creaht we could both take a moment to remember her’

Her throat was so tight by the tiued with him if she’d tried, so it was a relief when he reached for the bowl Lifting her ol, she proposed huskily, ‘To Doña Anna’

A muscle flexed in Don Xavier’s jaw, and then—and she was sure she wasn’t mistaken—the faintest hint of amusement sparked in his eyes So he was huether, we can do ether,’ she pro She had to stop herself exclai with relief when his firm mouth closed around the spoon

‘Doña Anna,’ he aze until heat flared inside her

‘Doña Anna,’ she repeated, trying not to meet his eyes as she wondered what else he could do with that sexy mouth He was just so unreasonably hot She had never been alone with such a good-looking man before, let alone so close to him Her ideal was based on the heroes in the books she used to read to Doña Anna, and they were all big and dark and dangerous too

And that was quite enough ra off-track for one day, Rosie warned herself firhtest move she’d have run a mile

‘Are we done here?’ he asked, dipping his head to bait her with his piercing stare

‘Yes, I think so Thank you for that’ Her body thanked hi with awareness

He wanted to smear her with ice cream and lick it off slowly He wanted to lay her down on the kitchen table and attend quite thoroughly to Señorita Clifton’s every need He wanted to explore every hungry part of her body slowly He could certainly see some use for the ice cream The contrast of heat and cold would be a torment to her—to him too, but that toret it

‘The tour?’ he pro himself around

‘Of course’ She s as going on behind that laaze

Why did the one woman in the world he needed to eject from his life as efficiently and quickly as possible have to be so desirable, and so ready for seduction?