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‘You made use of me today,’ Max began, his saturnine cast of feature very pronounced.

‘I had no objection to acting as your minder at the party. I enjoyed that. But I did object to the sexual experiment afterwards. You were obviously proving something to yourself when you asked me to make love to you.’

Abby’s eyes fell. ‘I was with you all the way until—well, until the last bit.’ She smiled wearily. ‘Maybe now you can see why life is so much easier for me without a man in it.’

‘I don’t scare so easily,’ he assured her, and got up to sit beside her. ‘I like a challenge. And you, Abigail Green, are very definitely a challenge.’