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A soft curse broke free froe of Oscar’s beautiful wife swa bravely as she’d bid him a painfully final farewell
E his foot down hard on the accelerator as if the angry burst of speed would take the alien feeling away The powerful car leapt forward, up and out of the valley, taking hi bare branches that lined his route away from the Balfour estate
But he wasn’t concentrating Nikos knew that even as he saw her standing there, directly in his way For a few chilling seconds he was so sure he was seeing soot to slam his foot on the brakes
He had never experienced anything like it In those few stark, stunning split seconds it took hiaze had absorbed every long luscious inch of her, fro an exquisite heart-shaped face to the lush shape of her body enclosed inside a fitted jacket and a skirt that followed every long sinuous line of her curving hips, long slender thighs and shapely calves And she earing boots, he noticed for some crazy reason Little black leather ankle boots with heels like lethal spikes
Then reality hit like a stinging shot of electricity to his wits and biting out a string of thick curses he slammed his foot down hard on the brakes
Mia stood frozen as the low silverthe air with a tire-burning, ear-piercing screech as the long silver bonnet carit-spitting halt two tiny centimetres from her shins
The engine hissed; the silver bonnet shuddered—silence returned like a nu back into his seat, Nikos stared out at her with his heart pounding like a haers still cla to stop in time He wasn’t even sure that he had He continued to sit in a state of near-total shutdoaiting for her to give hi back to show he hadn’t hit her or to drop down to the ground in a smashed heap!
Theos, she’s beautiful, his stupefied brain fed to hi a rush of hot blood down his front It gathered in his loins like a neat shot of testosterone Reacting to it with an explosive force of anger he thrust open the car door and threw himself out
‘What the hell do you think you are playing at!’ he raked out in full blistering fury ‘Do you have a death wish or so? Why the hell didn’t you move out of my way—?’
It took every bit of Mia’s nuth just to breathe in and out Her eyelashes finally gave a flutter of life and she ed to raise her eyes up from the car to focus on hi at the most beautiful man she had ever seen in her life
And he was striding towards her like a gladiator going to war Only this gladiator had a black overcoat hanging froant steel-grey three-piece suit beneath His shirt hite, his tie a silky slither of smoke down his front
Reaching the corner of the car he stopped to rake a doard glance at how close he had cos Fire lit his eyes just before he reached out, clamped his hands around her waist and bodily plucked her off the ground He was so intent on what he was doing he didn’t seeasp of shock, or the heavy thud as her suitcase dropped fro Mia knew she was up close and staring directly into a pair of deep dark polished-ht thick eyebrows as black as the hair on his head
‘You stupid fool,’ he roughed out, skin the sa olives stripped so pale it accentuated his strong jaw set as hard as a clenched fist ‘Say soht?’
Like a plastic doll jerked by hidden strings, Mia gave a shaky nod of her head ‘You—you almost killed me,’ she whispered
‘I avoided trying to kill you,’ he corrected ‘You should be thanking me for my fast reactions and skill’
‘You think it is skilful to drive like a lunatic, signor?’
‘You think it is clever to stand stockstill in the middle of a private drivehile a car hurtles towards you, signorina?’ he shot right back
As if only just realising he had hold of her, heher back on solid ground away from the lethal bumper of his car The sheer unexpectedness of the whole shocking incident jolted Mia’s paralysed reflexes into action by forcing her to rab at his arh heels of her boots He braced his arhtyat and snatched theain