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‘I don’t kno much my wife owes you, but…’

There was a look in the ice-green eyes that burned her pride Her reaction was instinctive and i her head, she stepped back mutely

‘Please…’ the Professor was insisting

‘No,’ Sadie refused fiercely Whether his act was a kindness to protect her or a bribe designed to protect his wife, she didn’t know; all she did knoas that she would not and could not take his es, and it was her wages she wanted—not the professor’s generosity

‘No,’ she repeated in a calhtly She grabbed hold of her suitcase and hurried towards the still open courtyard gates

Drax watched her go, protectively shielding the intensity of his desire by lowering his eyelids to hood his focused concentration on her The familiar, dry, sand-blown scent of the desert in the air he was breathing into his body was sharpened and flooded by the heat of his own arousal Dis his body was activating He was man, wasn’t he? And a er than ise Drax didn’t take women to his bed on sexual ily developed for that Actions that potentially shamed him did not just shame him, they shamed Vere—and they shamed the reputation that had been handed down to theo in for casual serial partner sex, it was perhaps time that he found himself a discreet mistress

The gates had been closed behind the young woh she had been surreptitiously watching fronised, Monika ca the the Professor, Drax alround Bending to pick it up, he frohen he realised that it was a passport He opened it, flicking through Sadie Murray, twenty-five years old, single, light brown eyes, dark blonde al h…

‘Vere—it is always such a pleasure to see you,’ Monika was gushing, causing Drax’s eyes to narrow as she hurried forward to envelop hi the passport away, he stepped back from her

‘Sadly for both of us, I’o, in the early days of herman in his early twenties, Monika had offered herself to hinised, and he would never forget that she had so easily planned to betray her husband

‘I appreciate that you have your reasons for doing so, my dear, but, really—that poor child…to dis with a worried frown

‘She deserved it,’ Monika returned sharply ‘She refused to carry outso cost reat deal of money’

‘But, n country,’ the Professor wavered unhappily ‘And morally—’

‘Morally? Hah! It is her morals that have caused me so es of e western woin?’

‘My dear…’

Drax could hear the distress in the older nore her husband’s shock