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‘Get dressed and go back to your quarters,’ he told Sadie curtly ‘We’ll discuss this further later’

CHAPTER NINE

WAS she really so weak that she was actually allowing Drax to treat her like this? Sadie derided herself angrily an hour later, as she sat alone in what should have been the tranquillity of the private gardens of the women’s quarters Why hadn’t she objected when he had virtually ordered her to come here? Why hadn’t she refused and told hi with her?

Did she really need to ask herself that? What rong with her was the sa that afflicted every woreasons

Fallen in love? Where had those words come from? She hadn’t fallen in love with Drax! No? Then as thecompulsive need to be with him, to hold him and touch him, to talk with him and learn all about him, to open her heart andto it while they walked together though the shadows of her past, to give hiiven the same intimacy back from him? What was all that if not love? How could she deny to herself that this was how she felt? But how could she love him when she knew that he did not feel the sa to deal with that and protect herself from its pain?

It had been a siht to Heathrow carrying the young bankers and MBAs who had leapt so eagerly at the chance to co when the Royal flight bringing his twin hoh he was not aware of Vere’s arrival

Jack Logan wasn’t at all concerned at the delay in their flight’s departure—the only thing that hadn’t run to schedule in the whole of their superbly organised and tightly packed trip He was quite happy to while away the ti served by the pretty hostesses, at the sa them to some heavily explicit flirtation Nor was he too concerned when an ied official came to escort him off the plane To the cat-calls, whoops and cheers of his companions, the older ularity that needed to be dealt with

‘Small, is it, Jack?’ one of his friends called out coarsely ‘And there’s you always boasting that it’s six inches and rising’

‘Nah—six inches without rising,’ Jack quipped back over his shoulder, grinning at the pretty hostess standing by the exit

By the time he was actually shown into Drax’s presence tenout an arrogant de on

‘Forgive ised calmly ‘I assure you that you will soon be free to rejoin your flight You know Ms Sadie Murray?’

Since Drax was noestern dress, and speaking very caler Nor did he make the association between the traditionally dressed man he had seen with Sadie and the urbane authority of this man seated in front of hied a cone had dulled his normally sharp awareness of how to protect his interests, and led hih and say unkindly, ‘Yes, I know her She’s the type that acts like she’s wearing a chastity belt and enjoying it As sexless as it’s possible for a woman to be’

‘You saw her earlier on today, I believe?’ Drax continued, outwardly ignoring Jack’s swaggeringword and look

‘Yeah, I saw her Ms Don’t-touch-ly, and then swore crudely before continuing, ‘God, but I really hate her s like she’s too good for me’

There was an ugly look in his eyes, and Drax had to s hard against the sour taste in his er Sadie had been in ‘You wanted to show her as boss? Scare her a bit…punish her?’ he suggested