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“I know The only one I’ve ever completely admired What an odd twist of fate that I would have fallen for a woman so devoted to justice”

“It seems odder to me that I’ve linked up with someone who can buy and sell planets at a whim”

“Married” He laughed Turning her around, he nuzzled the back of her neck “Go on, say it We’re married The on’t choke you”

“I knoe are” Ordering herself to relax, she leaned back against hi here, aith you”

“Then I take it you’re glad you let me pressure you into the three weeks”

“You didn’t pressure me”

“I had to nag” He nipped her ear “Browbeat” His hands slid up to her breasts “Beg”

She snorted “You’ve never begged for anything ButI haven’t had three weeks off the job innever”

He decided against re her she hadn’t had it now, precisely She rarely went through a twenty-four-hour period without running soainst a crime “Why don’t we make it four?”

“Roarke—”

He chuckled “Just testing Drink your chah for what I have in mind”

“Oh?” Her pulse leaped,her feel foolish “And what’s that?”

“It’ll lose in the telling,” he decided “Let’s just say I intend to keep you occupied for the last forty-eight hours we have here”

“Forty-eight hours?” With a laugh, she drained her glass “When do we get started?”

“There’s no ti when the doorbell sounded “I told the staff to leave the clearing up Stay here” He snugged together her robe, which he’d just untied “I’ll send them away Far away”