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He tilted his head slightly, obviously taking note. ‘What are you thinking about? Something nice? Perhaps something to do with me?’
‘No. No, I—’
‘Well?’ One corner of his mouth lifted. ‘Are you going to give me a chance to show you? Or are we going to do this at another time?’
‘This?’ Her brain wouldn’t work. Nothing seemed to work, not with him staring at her like that.
‘We need to be comfortable with each other.’ His voice deepened into something that resembled a purr. ‘Which means you’re going to have to get used to me being close. I understand that this might be too soon, so if you don’t want to do this now, we can leave it a couple of days.’
Him being close. The very idea of it...
I could hold your hand...tilt your head back...just a light brush across your lips...
She could almost feel it too, the press of his mouth to hers. It sent sparks cascading all over her skin.
No, this was insane. She was letting him get to her far too easily. She needed to pull herself together, not sit there staring at him with her mouth open like a landed fish.
And being totally practical about it, he wasn’t wrong. She did have to get used to him being close, especially if he wanted it to look real. So perhaps she should stop thinking about it and just do it. Get it over with. Besides, a kiss was the very least thing she’d thought she’d end up having to deal with tonight.
‘No,’ she said, then cleared her throat and said it again. ‘No. Tonight will be fine.’
He shifted, a subtle movement that drew her attention to the length of his muscular body. To the white cotton of his shirt pulling tight over the width of his wide shoulders and broad chest, and the wool of his trousers constricting around his powerful thighs.
Oh, holy...
‘Are you sure?’ His voice wrapped around her like warm velvet. ‘Like I said, we can wait a day or two if you’d rather.’
He’s putting it on, all this charm. You know that, right? He’s trying to seduce you.
The thought caught at her like a thorn and she glanced at him, looking past the blinding charisma, directly into the dark amber of his gaze.
And she expected to see the same cold deliberation she’d seen when he’d smiled at her initially, how the warmth didn’t touch his eyes.
She was even bracing herself for it.
But it came as a shock to find it wasn’t there. Neither was the warmth. Instead there was something far hotter, an ember of that fierceness she’d seen lurking beneath the surface of his charm. An intensity that made her throat close.
Why though? And what did it mean? Was he attracted to her?
It seemed impossible that a man of his beauty and power could feel anything at all for an ordinary woman like her, yet she couldn’t get rid of the thought. It made her feel good. Made her feel...strong. As if, perhaps, she might be able to handle him after all.
‘No,’ she said slowly, staring back at him. ‘I think tonight is good.’
Then she pushed herself to her feet.
He watched her a moment, then slowly did the same, rising to his full height in a graceful, athletic movement.
Scraping together the remains of her courage, Glory took a couple of steps in his direction, then stopped, her heart thumping.
Amusement filled his gaze and it was genuine. ‘You’ll have to come closer than that,mikri alepou.’
Little fox...
She’d never had a nickname. Never had anyone use an endearment. Annabel called her ‘Glor’ sometimes, and that was okay, but it didn’t make her shiver the way she shivered when Castor murmured in Greek.
‘Yes, I do know that, thank you,’ she said, then immediately felt bad for sounding cross. ‘Sorry. That was rude.’
‘You’re very polite, aren’t you?’
