DECEPTIVE DESIRES

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y way to the kitchen from the staff bedroom and I got lost. I’m so s

the very first day? If my superior could see me now,

in my line of work, but this was

didn’t

yet, but if you just call

from me. I whirled around in panic to face hi

I knew that in the office, they called me the ice q

e my best to avoid them. I didn’t go out with the team or drink. I didn’t dat

r lost my head over a man’s physical appearance, b

th broad shoulders and a lithely muscled frame c

kbones, a strong jaw, a full pink mouth. His eyes were the most intense part of him were his eyes. It was the first tim

ver. I took a

t exuded off him in waves. Ethereally beautif

n’t know any better,” someone suddenly

n a maid's uniform that looked like sh

ly led me away. I looked over my shoulder to see that the man was gone. I

of earshot, she turned

ing here? You sh

d the kitchen. I got

uca. If I were you, I’d avoi

” I a

’m Ana. Come on, we

verybody here must have seen something that made them afraid of De Luc

he servants were Italian, and so th

kitchen when I got there, and th

if the events of a few minutes ago had never happened, “that’

o,” I

Ana and I alone in the kitchen and then a re

ab those pots and fill them with

whispered as she walked

e-outs and fast food and I didn’t so much know how to boil water without almost bur

aghetti from the store. She s

ng to the ground was heard. Isabel and I spun towards

ppened?”

ow it was ho

er the running water. I’ll get the salve,” then sh

in. In fact, I had plans to never run into him again.

person I have ever seen in my life. His presence

e. Would you rather allow him to

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She or

and walked out to the dining room. I w

l men. I was well regarded in the team, and they

e down someone I was t

, daughter of Oscar and Kara Madden, two of the world’s best C

alked into the room and my bravad