my boss in my bed

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have his lack of f

usiness that was slow to get off the ground. And her apparent desire t

her sex than him. Grace Thacker came across a

by her admission of disappointment that her

ave allowed himself to b

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not been the case, his suspicions wouldn'

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hacker's case he'd decided that he w

, he felt a slow, burning anger build inside

didn't know the meani

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sleep without a roof ove

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truggle in her life so far had been decid

im, requesting a meetin

is time on her? But then he'd d

ribu

attered lives and was

o face the consequenc

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n obscene amount of money, wearing shoes that shrieked of sex, expecti

isi

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verlap because the che

from the moment she'd

that action had allowed him a tempting vision o

d swung forward over he

as she'd struggled n

im had been overwhelmed by a surge of masculine lu

se like a lifebelt. That gesture alone had been sufficient t

on

leavage and the long legs, Grace Thacker w

up from the recesses of

ion, instead turning the full forc

t bitterly. They obviously hadn't wanted any

shirt and her clean, sh

udge and jury, they'd ha

suitably confused as she considered his questio

, her complexion as pure an

d probably attended one of those starched girls' boarding-schools that

his w

was to marry a rich g

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adn't taken that route. Perhaps

ont her with the information in his possession

all a bit too easy fo

realised just how much he knew, then she'd probably use tears or sex

and that would be

't want it t

r. He wanted her to fee

nflicted on others. And

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might not be able to s

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if you call

hat, but he decided to

worr

him a shy smile that

are depending on me b

head, don't you,

chair and watched her

e had a human streak. A

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unreasonable. 'So you

op

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be done or eve

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ing the

ears old again. Eight ye

ned. Lost in the dark. S

all meant danger. Freez

and paced across to the

he dark tentac

still, steadying his

ing of his feelings show

e yourself

s of her soft mouth lif

ily have to be ruthless

and manipulative?' Rafa

that you consider n

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don't understand wher

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was wondering

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er the consequences of

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