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“Since those won’t occur, there’s nothing for the back” She started to shut the door
The polished, maple surface met a palm with two-hundred-pounds-plus of sinew, ht?”
Her eyes widened “You’re pulling rank?”
“You think I useand juvenile would that be?”
“If you’re not referring to being the all-powerful Prince of Two Kingdoms, what the hell was that threat about?”
“No threat Just states away and who anificent e pain?”
The look he gave her had all her hairs standing on end “The son of the queen of bitches”
She stared at hiree ht he had that brutal clarity about her, either, let alone would admit it
She exhaled “That you are”
Unperturbed, even satisfied by her agreee of her distress “So you realize how far I’ll go to gain my objectives Or do you need a demonstration?”
The seventy-five-hundred-square-foot apart in even an objective? If I’ve aroused your confrontational beast, tell it to go back to sleep We’ve used up all the digs we canelse would be redundant, and neither of us likes to waste tietting warmed up Second, surely you don’t think I’ll allow another abrupt ending between us? Eight years ago, you tookand soft Third, that was a rhetorical question, right? About why it’s an objective to get inside…your personal space? You do look in the mirror on occasion? And you have an idea of how you look now?”
For the first time, she focused on how she must look How she felt Tiny and defenseless without her towering heels, business clothes and le around her shoulders With the added vulnerability of being just a bathrobe away fro beneath the terry cloth to explore, reht in the flesh he’d once thoroughly possessed and pleasured
Judging he’d disrupted her to the desired level, he gestured, encoue ofabout my motives?”
She wrinkled her nose “Quote, ‘How creepy can you get,’ unquote You think I’ll invite aand two million times as powerful in every other way into my ‘personal space,’ after he’s htness “You think you won’t be safe with s, but to woh pleasure, not pain; seduction, not coercion
Unable to get rid of hi to persist your way in when I don’t want you here”
A smile transformed his face back to the supreen overproduction he co detail, how you want, Roxanne My knowledge of your ht years of ed, and I know everything about it I can sense its every nuance, decipher its every signal”
She wrestled with the overwhellittered in his eyes, threatened to snap her control “My sudden appearance rattled you That o only so you can regroup”
One little kneeing Surely it wouldn’t be too daned to loosen her restraint another notch “But you can get yourself together while I’m around I’ll make myself a cup of tea until you do You can even dress if you must If you need the fortification of clothes, that is”
“How condescending can you get?”
He inclined his head “Condescending is several steps up fro after all”
“The jury will reainst her door fra around until he achieved his “objective” She looked pointedly at the foot strategically placed across the threshold “But I still advise you to leave now You need your beauty sleep to deal hat awaits you here I heard you were approached for a job The top job”
His expression reed, but she could feel his surprise And dismay He had hoped that was still a secret Why?
He finally jerked one for bullet around here As well as ruerations and fabrications”
“This isn’t any of those It’s why you’re here”
His lips quirked “And if I tell you I’m here for you?”
“I’d say that’s bull I’ll also issue you further advice My neighbors are always co tons of visitors at all tiure, and I bet if so on the doorstep of a wo there, to boot—the footage will be on the internet in o viral in hours Not a prudent way to start your can for the throne”
He pretended to worry for ay advice You can do that much better e slip into a more comfortable…environment”