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‘I’m not blaming you. I’m blaming the situation.’ His eyes met hers and she saw something that stunned her for a second. Was that concern?

‘If you needed money, you should have come to me,’ he said with dictatorial authority, and she knew she’d made a stupid mistake. That wasn’t concern. It was contempt.

‘There was no need for you to become a stripper,’ he remarked.

Her heart stopped, and the blush blazed like wildfire.

Had he just said stripper?

He cupped her cheek. The unexpected contact had her outraged reply getting stuck in her throat.

‘I know things ended badly between us, but we were friends once. I can help you.’ His thumb skimmed across her cheek with the lightest of touches. ‘And, whatever happens, you’re finding another job.’ The patronising tone did nothing to diminish the arousal darkening his eyes. ‘Because, quite apart from anything else, you’re a terrible stripper.’