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Emily stared at Leandro in mute silence. She didn't want him to carry on—she really didn't want to hear what he had to say on a subject she had no desire to talk about—but she felt like a rabbit frozen in the headlights while a car moved inexorably at full speed towards it.

‘Ah, I see you get where I'm coming from.’

He sat up and his hand snaked up to her wrist, tugging her down beside him so that she half fell onto the rug before shuffling into a sitting position whilst glaring impotently at him.

‘The cat is out of the bag, Emily. You're no longer a personal assistant hiding behind a bland exterior with a non-existent private life.’

She was so close to him that he could see the flicker in her eyes…he could almost smell the scent of an awareness she was desperate to conceal.

‘You're engaged to be married to a man for whom you have…feelings of…what, exactly? Certainly not love and—let's be honest here—definitely not physical attraction. And do you know how I've come to that conclusion?’

He ran his thumb along the side of her cheek in a gesture that was shockingly intimate and she pulled away sharply.

‘Point proved. I've come to that conclusion, my dear personal assistant, because you're attracted to me…’