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‘Fine I’ll only be two minutes’

‘You were looking for so when I came in?’

‘It wasn’t anything important,’ Sadie said quickly There was no way she could tell him that Monika’s maid had omitted to pack her underwear in the case And not just some of it All of it

‘We can’t waste any more time There will be a robe in the bathroom—put that on’

He obviously wasn’t going to leave the bedroo the irritated look he was giving her, wrapped the towel tightly around herself and hurried into the bathrooht to have put on in the first place

While she was gone Drax looked at the bed If he had followed his instincts right now she would be lying on it, her eyes closed in pleasure, her heart beating against the delicacy of her flesh, whilst he kissed and caressed her until she opened herself to hied him to possess her But she wasn’t his to possess That pleasure would belong to Vere—if he chose to take it

When Sadie eed from the bathroo beside the bedroorim

Was he going to tell her that he had changed his htened her to acknowledge how little she wanted to hear him say that

CHAPTER FIVE

‘CHAMPAGNE?’ Drax asked curtly

How decadent that would be—drinking cha in an expensive leather seat, in the coerously handsome and very wealthy man—and how completely opposite to her normal way of life

‘No, thank you,’ Sadie said pris which seemed to fill almost half the floor space of the cabin, and her eyes darkened with an emotion she didn’t want to admit to as she contemplated the woman they were destined for and her probable role in Drax’s life The role no doubt her unfa for her!

Sadie could feel a hot wash of guilt burning through her body Of course Drax would have a ner bags in the cabin What did he do? Suht with hiether, housed in opulent luxury in an old-fashioned-style seraglio, their beauty only ever seen by onehiive oneself over totally and completely to one man’s pleasure? To make it and him the whole purpose of one’s life? To spend hour upon hour preparing your body for his possession in every way there was? She wasn’t prepared for the fierce shudder that gripped her, convulsing her in a series of s that they asp softly in embarrassed shock

Immediately Drax focused on her

‘You are afraid of flying?’ he demanded sharply