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"Just don’t ever let me in the same room with him," Wesley had said when Nora revealed the nature of their relationship
"You think you can take Søren?"
"You said he hat, forty-five? Eighteen versus forty-five? And any guy who beats up on wouy who’d only hit another hed then, so hard she’d alet any , she’d taken Wesley’s chin in her hand and forced him to meet her eyes Søren once told her she had the erous eyes of any woman who’d ever lived He told her when men looked in her eyes they saw their own darkest fears reflected back Usually she tried to tamp down that particular trick of hers This tilance
"Kid, Søren could eat you for breakfast and not even need to chew Don’t ever fk with a sadist, Wesley For Søren, torture’s just foreplay"
"Why did you stay with hirinned at him, and she saw a new fear in Wesley’s sweet brown eyes
"I like foreplay"
Wesley…she couldn’t find hi room and noticed a note taped to the door It said he was at the library but he’d be home around six And at the bottom of the note were the words he always said when she went out for a job--"You don’t have to do this" No, she didn’t have to But she owed it to Kingsley Nora grabbed her coat and toy bag and made a quick stop in the bathroom She took a pill bottle fro ater and left
It took fortythe elite of the world--only the wealthiest and most powerful men and women could afford her Quite a feere even household nah the front doors of a hosley hadn’t mentioned the need for discretion so she didn’t bother
She strode through the front lobby of one of the grandest and oldest hotels in the city and worried for a second that sonize her She shook off the worry--no one orked in publishing could afford this place The lobby was littered o with Prada and men stuffed inside their Armani suits Nora bit back a smile as she breezed past the across her back and her sunglasses on even though she was indoors and it was still winter She wasn’t ashamed of what she did But it was fun to be around people ere nervous just being in the sa near the elevator walked off when she joined the Vanilla people were so cute sometimes She entered the elevator, hit the button for the nineteenth floor and headed up alone
Nora stepped out, got her bearings and made her way to room 1909 A key card lay hidden under a newspaper in front of the door She unlocked the door, stepped inside and saw a tall, blondwith his back to her
"Hello, Eleanor," he said
Nora gasped and her bag hit the floor with a nervous clatter of metal
"Oh, my God…Søren"
Zach sat at his desk in his office at Royal He checked his e down the coht fro down her sex scenes Perhaps she now understood the kind of book she riting, was starting to understand she could write sohtening the papers on his desk, Zach found a copy of the contract that the legal departned it today, it wasn’t valid until he signed it He looked over the ternificant advances very often Of course, Nora brought her own impressive fan base with her Zach knew JP hoped she would bring a certain libidinous cachet to the rather staid old publishing house It was a bold ht
Zach sned contract When he and Grace had bought their first house, the paperwork hadn’t been half this preposterous Poor Grace He re her at their tiny kitchen table in their first horrid little flat they’d rented sight unseen when they’d moved to London They’d been ht she was supposed to knohat every word of the contractover every page He’d leave and come back and she would have another twelve questions to ask hiht of refusal mean? Did they know the assessed value? Did they need a variance if he worked fro her spend an entire day trying to understand everything as if she thought she should that Zach finally had to coht on top of their settlement statement He remembered it so clearly, the shock on her face when the papers scattered to the four winds She thought he was angry with her But he remembered her smile when he kissed her so fiercely the table scooted a foot back He res had wrapped around hierness as helike buying a house together to make or break a relationship That was the day he decided they were going to make it