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‘What…?’

‘Why don’t you get in the car?’ Drax looked at his watch ‘I can tell you about the job that’s on offer over a late lunch in the city’

Did he really expect her to fall for that kind of line? She wasn’t that naïve ‘I’,’ she e for her passport

Drax stepped back froht somewhere within the folds of his dishdasha

‘Very well,’ he said calmly, and turned back to his car

‘My passport…’ Sadie protested frantically

‘What passport? If, when I reach the airport for ht to Dhurahn, I find that I still have the passport I found lying on the ground in Zuran City, then I shall naturally see that it reaches the nearest British Embassy’

‘What?’ This was getting worse by theto leave the country ‘No, you can’t do that!’ Sadie told him wildly

‘No?’ The ice-green eyes had hardened

Ignoring the warning in the out as she stu out of the earth and then fell heavily against Drax

Drax’s reactions were quicker than Sadie’s He caught her easily, and could have held her away from him so their bodies didn’t come into contact, but for some reason he wasn’t prepared to explain to himself he didn’t Instead, he wrapped his hands around her upper arainst his own He could feel the soft rounded swell of her breasts, and the temptation to slide his hands froainst hi and instinctive that it startled him She se of sexual awareness to grip hiuard

What the hell was this? He didn’t normally react with this kind of easy arousal A man in his position had to be careful about his sexual liaisons Drax had learned that long ago He had a responsibility towards the position he held He and Vere had a shared duty to give their subjects a good exah ed in, and yet here he was so stiffly erect that he felt downright unco woman with her topaz eyes and her pale skin A woman he had already decided to offer to his brother

Which was, of course, why he was testing her e of their shared intimacy now to co his plan Neither could he afford to become sexually involved with her—it wasn’t for sex that he wanted her She must be proved to be the kind of woman the Professor believed her to be The kind of woman as the opposite of women like Monika al Sawar and ould not try to institute sex with ainvited to do so

After Sadie’s shock at being so unexpectedly close to Drax, with all its drugging excitenition of her vulnerability—and with it panic

‘Let go of nised weakly, as she heard the eood for her, she ad she had felt in the courtyard, and underlined her inability to override her physical response to him