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As they walked towards it Sadie could see a fleet of immaculate mini-coaches parked outside the main entrance

‘We have been inviting certain financial sector personnel to come to Dhurahn for inspection tours,’ Drax explained

‘You’ve done so much already I can’t see why you would need to e to hiasp as her foot slipped on the rubble underfoot

Drax reacted i out to take hold of her bare arm to steady her

She was so close to him that she was convinced heof her heart, never ulped in air She was suddenly aware that her fingers were clutching at his forearm The white cotton of his robe felt crisp and fresh beneath the hot stickiness of her hand She could smell the elusive but sensual scent of ne; it enticed her to move closer to him so that she could breathe it in She had taken a step towards him before she could stop herself

The hand he had placed on her arm moved up to her shoulder, to acco the rounded ball of her shoulder joint where her bare skin e of her top’s short sleeve—only his hand wasn’t on her sleeve, it was on her bare flesh, as though he had slid his fingers beneath the edge of her sleeve Just thinking of that kind of intih a fine thread inside her linking every erogenous zone she possessed had been pulled tighter She could see the dark coluolden If she lifted her gaze a little higher she would be able to see his mouth

Her heart missed one beat and then another as she did exactly that She couldn’t re ato do so If she had, the moment was co every tiny detail of Drax’ssharply into the corners She wanted to touch it, to draw her fingertip slowly along it She wanted…She wanted to lean forward and press her own ainst his She wanted…

Did she knohat she was doing, looking at hiaze drowned in open desire? Drax’s fingers tightened on the warm, bare flesh of her shoulder, where he had slipped his hand beneath her sleeve, kneading and caressing its curve He looked down at her body and sa her nipples were pressing against the fabric of her top, signalling her arousal It would be the easiest thing in the world to lift his free hand to shape them and then pluck erotically at the boldly aroused flesh, to whisper to her hoould kiss and caress its nakedness before taking it into his mouth to unite them in fierce physical pleasure

The easiest thing, and the erous The erection he had controlled earlier throbbed urgently with aching need He could take her back to his car now They would be back within the palace and the privacy of his own quarters within half an hour, and then he could take his pleasure of her in all the ways his body was de

Except that he had vowed that she would be Vere’s Vere’s—not his!

He released her so swiftly that Sadie wasn’t sure if what she was feeling was relief or disappointment What had possessed her to simply stand there like that? she wondered unco stride Was it possible that somewhere deep inside every sensible woe, with a secret desire to be claih, to snatch her up and make her his own?

‘It is a pity thatI am sure that when he returns he ish to do so This venture is very close to his heart’

‘But the design concept for the overall plan is yours?’ Sadie guessed intuitively, as they reached

the entrance to the building

She didn’t want Drax to bring his brother into the conversation Soh he was actually physically standing between them The sharp stab of jealousy she felt shocked her What kind of foolishness was this? Surely only a wo wildly and passionately in love with a man could feel jealous of a brother she had yet to meet?