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The realisation ed since her arrival

My whole life has changed—because of Marc

It was not until a fortnight later, as she checked her calendar with sudden, hollowing realisation, that she knew just how much

Marc stood on the terrace of his penthouse residence in one of Manhattan’scity Hiswas over, and the client was pleased and satisfied hat Bank Derenz had achieved for hi ahead of him, Marc shifted restlessly

There was so else he wanted

Someone

I want Tara—I want her here withwithup her eyes—sohter I want to talk about whatever it e used to talk about, in that conversation that seemed to flow so freely and naturally And, yes, sometimes I want to spar with her, to hear her sometimes deadpan irony and those sardonic quips that draw a smile from me even now as I remember them

And after dinner we’d co besidejust for us And she’d lift her face to low, and I would catch her lips with mine and sweep her up, take her to my bed

He could feel his body ache with desire for her, the blood heating in his veins

With an effort of sheer will he tore hisscene so vivid in his head He , her oh-so-beautiful body naked in his bed, her glorious hair swathed across the pillow, her high, rounded breasts rising and falling with the gentle sound of her breathing

It had been hard to leave her Hard to reject her plea to come with him Harder than he’d wanted it to be Harder than it should have been Harder than it was safe to have been—

But the safe thing for him to do had been to leave her He knew that—knew it for all the reasons that hadto his desire for her

And the fact that he wanted to yield to it again, that his body so longed to do so, that he wanted to phone her now, tell her a flight was booked for her and that she should join him in New York, must make him even more wary

It isn’t safe to want her It isn’t safe because it’s what she wants too She asked outright—asked to come with me, wanted more than e had in France How much more would she have asked of me? Expected of me?