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Through Leo’s lean, powerful frame a familiar and pleasurable sensation started

So the sable-haired, green-eyed beauty was bored, was she?

Well, he would be happy to remedy that

Personally

He started to walk down the stairs

Anna felt her one into a huddle with his assistants, and she could hear the static hiss of vituperative Italian She gave another sigh, feeling the low-cut décolletage digging in She hated wearing it—it was far too revealing, and it invited the usual sleazy male attention she tried to avoid

Her lips pressed together again Mentally she forced herself to go through one of her karate katas It both calht off any physical harass over her

She shifted her weight againwasn’t as easy as people thought it was, and she could tell that the two a Anna’s eyes travelled to them The brunette, Kate, looked vacant without her lenses in—but at least, thought Anna, it meant she couldn’t see the lecherous looks aimed at her The redhead, Vanessa, had other protection—word had gone round that her boyfriend was the cousin of the guy who’d set up this shindig and owned this h why, Anna mused, a Greek should own a castle in the Austrian Alps was beyond her Maybe he just wanted to be close to the private Swiss bank he kept his loot in

He certainly had a whole load of cash, that was for sure Schloss Edelstein was vast, perched halfway up a mountain and surrounded by forests and snowfields

Anna’s bored expression lightened suddenly with re: sunlight sparkling on the pristine snon to the frozen lake below, ringed by asworks she’d had when she was growing up

But then Anna had been lucky, she knew—spectacularly lucky

Spotted in a shopping ency, she’d been incredibly suspicious at first But the offer had proved genuine Not that it hadn’t taken non-stop hard work to succeed at h she was not in the super up to her liht-years away from what she’d been born to

She’d learned a lot along the way Not just how the other half lived—which had opened her eyes big-tihest careers around And do it without letting the sliet to you

Because sli feature of a fashionthey could, and slept with every man who could help their career And a lot of the men in the fashion world weren’t any better either