A Ruthless Bargain

have to be her panties? She dressed hastily and was thankful that her walk of shame would span on

tents of her suitcase were chaotically strewn all over the duvet cover, and sank down in relief.

her face in

her voice. And by the lie. She was definitely embarrassed by the blatant lie, ev

orty-five minutes of her life, and there was no getting around that

, everything else was still tightening and convulsing in

ng to do with the micro explosions still tingling all over her body a

an obnoxious, misogynistic jerk with a smug self-assu

Miss Knight, or the way he couldn’t seem to look at her when he ta

f work, he now insisted on painstakingly checking every singl

he made it absolutely clear that he did not trust her to do anything more

f he weren’t one of her brother’s buddies, Dante would probably have fired her within the

y insanity . . .. Maybe she could blame temporary insanity. She must have lost h

hopelessly wrinkled dress as she went. She fumbled with t

going and gratefully stepped beneath the powerful spray before swearing and fum

’t know if she was sophisticated enough to be cool abo

es before thumping it softly and rhythm

sly indulged outside at least a semi committed relationship. Th

ns. It happened. Now she needed to figure out how the hell she was going to get through the rest of

rica, Dante regularly swapped her for other executive assistants in the upper echelons of his global, mu

petence and rarely gave her the mind-numbingly borin

oth robe provided by the hotel. She sauntered over to the huge fl

istful smile and a momentary pang at the thought of all she’d lost before shoving the memory of what she

s slightly open, and every so often something—the dream of

much else going on right now. She couldn’t allow the coulda/shoulda

ity that didn’t seem to have slowed down at all, despite the lateness of the hour. She knew she should try to get some sleep. It was after three in the morning, and Dante Damaso would undoubtedly be up, dressed, and disgustingly alert

espite the lack of sleep and jet lag. For once that ability wasn’t a blessing, not when he was i