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He expelled a burst of air, guilt seeping into his consciousness. No, it had been too long if he was starting to compare the likes of this woman with Zoë.
Zoë didn’t deserve it.
Still, that needn’t stop him from pursuing his plan. He had the time now. The latest from his father said that Olympia was leaving on a shopping trip to Paris in the morning, meaning she was safe from Della-Bosca’s witchcraft for a few days at least.
Which gave him the perfect opportunity to take his time with Jade.
He’d get the information he wanted. There was no doubt of that. Already he could sense her attitude warming to him, her once prickly defences coming down. A few more days of this and she would be his to control. She’d tell him everything he wanted to know and more. She wouldn’t stand a chance.
But first he’d make the most of her refreshingly innocent body. He’d teach her how to pleasure a man. He’d teach her how to pleasure him. And then he’d take as much of her as he had time for.
He turned fully to her, running his hand along her sensual side-on curves and stirring her provocatively back into wakefulness.
There was no time like the present to begin.
CHAPTER SIX
‘LOUKAS? It’s Con.’ His father’s strident tones boomed down the landline. ‘Olympia is back in the States.’
Loukas reeled and checked the chronometer on his watch. Not already! ‘Are you certain?’
‘I told you she was only going for three to four days! She called her mother today when she got back. Stella dropped that she’s going in for some “home improvements” this week. So, what have you found out?’
‘I’m…working on it,’ Loukas managed, trying to work out where in God’s name three days had gone.
‘What? I thought you had that girl eating out of your hand? What the hell have you been doing?’
Loukas took a desperate gasp for oxygen. Eating out of his hand. He might have used those exact words himself the last time he’d called his father, but eating out of his hand wasn’t the direction his thoughts had been going in just lately. Not the way his student had been so skilfully progressing. ‘It’s—more complicated than I thought.’
‘No way!’
‘Listen, Con, about Jade—she’s not what we assumed. It’s taking more time to get what I want.’
‘There is no more time! You know what those paparazzi are like. I’m trying to run on a family ticket and I haven’t got time right now to come over and sort Olympia out. The papers will make a meal out of me if they snap her coming out of a place like that. So you need to find her first. You have to find out when she’s scheduled for surgery and you have to keep her out of there.’
‘I know that,’ he said. ‘I’m trying to.’
‘Then try harder. Have you tried calling her lately?’
‘You know she won’t take my calls—not after what happened before. Chasing her halfway across the country to stop her from making the mistake of her life and marrying Kurt sure hasn’t helped me out in the big brother stakes. She’s not likely to talk to me any time soon, Con.’
‘Then use that woman of yours more effectively. She knows something. If she’s in with Della-Bosca then she has to. Find out what it is and stop her.’
Loukas raked his fingers through his hair as he looked skyward. Yeah, what his father said all made sense, but…Just lately he’d been beginning to think he’d made a mistake. For all the things he’d thought so fake about Jade, she seemed so real in his arms. And she felt damned real in his bed.
‘Loukas!’
‘I’m here.’
‘This is more important than ever. You can’t let Olympia get dragged through the papers. Not now. It’s crucial you stop her.’
‘I know. I’ll sort it out for her. She’s my sister, after all. I’m not going to let anything happen to her.’
‘She’s not your sister.’
‘Well, half-sister, then. It’s the same thing isn’t it? She’s family.’
‘Listen to me, Loukas. Very carefully. She’s not your sister. Not by blood, at any rate.’
