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“What did Novros say?” Rafael deerous voice

She shook her head, frowning in confusion “Nothing”

“You’re lying I heard hirabbed her wrists and suddenly the expression on his handsome face was so hard and full of repressed fury, she felt afraid “Did he offer you so more?”

Bewildered at his strange reaction, she shook her head “No”

“Then what?” he demanded

She sed “He didn’t make sense”

His grip tightened on her “Tell me,” he ordered

She whispered, “He offered me a million dollars for my brownie recipe, then when I wouldn’t, he just said…‘Good for you’”

Rafael’s jaw clenched His iht

“Do you knohat he meant?” she asked

With a coldly furious expression, he shook his head

She licked her lips nervously Why was Rafael acting so angry? She felt a luht beneath her ribs

He wouldn’t release her wrist, and a hard knot of anger grew in her own throat She thought she’d known him—known all his faults But she’d never seen Rafael so dark, so altogether brutal

Ripping her hand away, she de like this?”

“You knohy,” he growled